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![Europe’s First Wild River National Park Is Here](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/national-park01-768x576.jpg.webp)
Albania’s untamed Vjosa River introduces a new model for global water conservation.
![Fire Lines](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/etzel-k-1819-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Können Bikes, Trails und alte Traditionen den Weg in eine bessere Zukunft weisen?
![Lāhainā, One Year Later](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/craig-r-0424-cc-web-hero-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A year after the worst wildfire in recent history razed the historic town of Lāhainā, the community of West Maui continues to recover and rebuild.
![On the Theft of Dreams](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/wiwi-064-065-dykinga-cc-web-9x16-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
The first-place essay from a youth writing competition we hosted with the nonprofit Write the World.
![Keeping Pace](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/davis-brendan-0282-cc-web-hero-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
One runner gets her fix helping others chase their dreams, again and again.
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In northern Chile, a desert is being scourged by the textile industry. But a resilient community is transforming a reality of waste into opportunity.
![Running Led Me Home](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/rodriguez-jr-0002-cc-web-hero-9x16-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
After years of trying to fit in with Western trail culture, one runner realizes that what she’s been missing lies in the Colombian mountains of her youth.
![Where to Find Hope on Climate](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/16x9-arisman-c-0014-768x432.jpg.webp)
Introducing Home Planet Fund, an independent nonprofit that supports local and Indigenous communities who work in concert with nature to stop climate breakdown.
![Running Up For Air](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/woodward-f-1111-cc-web-2560x1440-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Eine Running Community wird aktiv, um etwas gegen die sinkende Luftqualität zu unternehmen.
![The Wrong Green](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/peterson-m-0001-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
All dams are dirty. Efforts to make them better only make things worse.
![Strength for the Next Disaster](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/reggero-d-0002-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Louisiana community organizer Roishetta Ozane on her fight to stop the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth and how mutual aid can play a part.
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Meet the man working to save Mexico’s Punta Conejo.
![The Quest to Save 100 Waves in Peru](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/wagner-s-0001-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
A friendship built between waves becomes a powerful alliance for the protection of surf breaks.
![Let’s End Neighborhood Drilling for Good](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/estrada-m-0070-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.
![Breaking Trail for Clean Air](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/woodward-f-1111-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Running Up For Air is not a race. It’s a community, a gathering of friends and a fundraiser for clean-air advocacy.
![A Matter of Breathing](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/johnson-e-0022-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Running won’t solve the issue of wood pellet biomass pollution. But it can ignite community and conversation—and that’s a start.
![Der 240-km-Test](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/noll-e-0014-cc-web-9x16-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Ein erfahrener Forschungs- und Entwicklungsdesigner von Patagonia geht in die schwedischen Berge, um einen neuen Rucksack-Prototyp zu testen – und eine kühne Idee, wie man Mehrtagestouren neu denken kann.
![What the Hands Do](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/burr-a-7030-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpg.webp)
Wie können wir mit Klettern die Welt so gestalten, wie wir sie uns wünschen?
![Toward an End to Microfiber Pollution](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/gormley-n-0101-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Since we first learned of the role we play in the spread of microfiber pollution in 2015, Patagonia has actively searched for partners to help end—or at least seriously curtail—the spread of synthetic fiber waste into the air and water. We’ve long been familiar with the microplastics problem—the breakdown of plastic bottles, yogurt cups and…
![To My Bebito](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/small-ltfc1-768x768.jpg.webp)
Climate and sustainability journalist Yessenia Funes writes to her future child—the one she hopes to have and has been afraid of bringing into our world.
![Justice for the Dogger Bank](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/01-justice-for-the-dogger-bank-768x513.jpg.webp)
After centuries of destruction, nature needs to come first
![A Sea of Opportunity](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/01-a-sea-of-opportunity-768x512.jpg.webp)
How marine food production and thriving blue ecosystems go hand in hand.
![Brittle Stars](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/01-gr52355-whi-mike-guest-768x512.jpg.webp)
A surfer’s relationship with our fragile, changing marine environment.
![For the Love of the Sea](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/for-love-of-sea-poster-vert-765x1020.jpg.webp)
Eine wirkungsvolle Lösung für die Klimakrise liegt direkt unter der Meeresoberfläche.
![L’arte dell’attivismo](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/art-of-activism-poster-vert-765x1020.jpg.webp)
Im Kampf gegen die Grundschleppnetze, die sein geliebtes Mittelmeer zerstören, realisiert ein italienischer Fischer, dass Kunst die stärkste Form des Protests sein kann.
![The Custodians](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/neumeier-a-0007-cc-web-1170x1410-1-768x677.jpg.webp)
Angesichts der abnehmenden Fischbestände ergriff eine Gruppe von Menschen in Schottland die Initiative – Seegraswiese für Seegraswiese.
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Ramón Navarro begleitet das Kawesqar-Volk auf einer Reise zum Schutz ihrer angestammten Gewässer im chilenischen Patagonien.