This holiday shopping season, environmental groups are asking shoppers to reconsider buying cheaper fast-fashion items that may only get a few uses. These items often end up discarded quickly, harming ...

The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on Earth, so dry that it's sometimes used by scientists to test run Mars missions. Most years the area sees less than ...

It's no secret that fast fashion imports from international brands like H&M, Zara, and Shein have come to dominate Americans' wardrobes. The U.S. imported more than $24 billion of apparel in 2023, and ...

A huge heap of unworn clothing is piling up in Chile's Atacama desert. An estimated 39,000 tons of clothes that can't be sold in the US or Europe end up in Chile yearly. The clothes occupy a large ...

Fashion has always been somewhat environmentally detrimental, but it seems like in the past few years, with the rise of online industries and companies like Shein, H&M, and Zara, fast fashion has not ...

If you peek behind the racks at your favorite fast fashion retailer, you might not see the full story—but it’s unfolding thousands of miles away. Fast fashion companies dump toxic dyes, solvents, ...

WENZHOU, China — At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom ...

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