Why Melissa Is the Future of Footwear

Whatever you think you know about plastic, unthink it. Because if shoe brand Melissa is any indication, plastic might not be the environmental enemy we think it is. There’s a lot of talk about the fashion industry’s environmental impact and which of its practices are the most damaging amid the climate crisis. Optimists daydream about…

Tracing Mining’s Threat to U.S. Waters

PABLO, Mont. — In the mountain streams of southern British Columbia and northern Montana, a rugged part of the world, fish with misshapen skulls and twisted spines have been caught over the years. Many scientists attribute the malformed creatures and declines in certain fish populations to five enormous open-pit coal mines that interrupt this wild…