Outdoor recreation is an extractive industry. For Outside, I’ve reported deeply on the environmental impacts of adventure.
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The Invisible Nightmare in Your Fleece
Washing a single polyester jacket can send 1,900 tiny synthetic microfibers into waterways. So what is the outdoor industry doing about it?
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Three Major Ski Resort CEOs Talk Climate Change
Facing a future in which big, cold winters are becoming as rare as monoskis, some titans of the snowsports industry compared notes.
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Why Trout Fishermen Worry About Wind Turbines
The Chokecherry/Sierra Madre wind farm is a poster child for the fears and anxieties renewable energy can bring to rural America.
