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Silent Running
A stroll through the woods can inspire, but to experience nature as your fleet-footed ancestors did, lose the clunky shoes
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sports
Living Large Driving Less
What makes a community livable? How about getting rid of cars?
Look, It's a Cheatercycle!
How a pedaling purist learned to love (or at least not be so embarrassed by) electric bikes
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biking
Maps Into a Paper basket
Chart a new course for your paper maps by weaving them into a sturdy, multihued basket
Wilderness Diplomacy
Can photos of America's natural wonders inspire a cultural cease-fire?
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national parks
Livelihoods on the Line
The cleanup is winding down, but the question remains: Would you eat an oyster from the Gulf of Mexico?
Paria Canyon
Exploring one of the longest and deepest slot canyons in the world
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travel
Haiti's Toilet Sweetheart
Transforming waste into resources
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international environmental justice
Sympathy for the Tasmanian Devils
The Tasmanian devil is the largest carnivorous marsupial
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animals
Grow Weird Fruit
Horticulture experts recommend some offbeat but easy-to-grow fruits and vegetables
Flathead Guardians
Conservationists, the Olympics, and an indignant porcupine keep mountaintop-removal coal mining out of a wildlife paradise
Andrew Zimmern: Interview With a Bug-Eater
The host of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods roams the planet to taste dung beetles, tarantulas, and scorpions.
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food and drink
Green Washing—the Good Kind
We asked sanitation experts to name their favorite planet-preserving solutions
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buyers' guide
Endangered? Who Cares?
They suck blood, spread disease, eat their mates, and inspire great horror films. But insects need protection—maybe even a little love.
Primate's best friend
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animals
Koster Islands, Sweden
Shaped by ancient ice and the lash of wind and water, the Koster Islands' landscape is geologically distinct from that of mainland Sweden
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travel
Narwhals are Spiraling Down
The unicorns of the sea are threatened by rising water temperatures