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Environmental Working Group (EWG) Releases 2025 “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean Fifteen” Lists
Here are the most contaminated — and cleanest — fruits and veggies.
What to Do With Your Loved One’s Cremains
Coping with loss is hard enough. Deciding how to honor your loved one’s cremains can be equally emotional. Explore these thoughtful options.
Can You Legally Be Buried at Sea?
Yes. Here’s what you need to know to plan your nautical farewell.
What Is a Natural or Green Burial?
Learn more about this simple, yet meaningful, ancient burial practice.
Hope on the Great Barrier Reef
One of our editors shares her tour of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia and what she learned about efforts to rehabilitate this critical marine habitat.
Protect Yourself From Mosquitoes — Naturally
Spraying pesticides or foggers can harm pollinators. Try these simple, natural tips to prevent a mosquito bite.
What Is Human Composting?
Also known as natural organic reduction (NOR), this eco-friendly alternative to traditional burial and cremation processes allows a body to naturally decompose and leave behind a rich compost. Learn more.
What Is Water Cremation?
Learn more about this alternative to traditional flame or fire cremation.
Your Guide to Eco-Friendly Burial and Cremation Options
Discover greener burial and cremation alternatives that honor your values — and your final environmental impact.
Repel Mosquitoes and Biting Bugs — Naturally
Easy tips to protect yourself from biting bugs — and also help save pollinators and other beneficial insects.
Planting 100,000-Plus Trees Together
How the Life Time Foundation is partnering with American Forests to support reforestation from devastating wildfires in California’s Sierra Nevada — and how you can get involved.
7 Ways to Reduce Exposure to PFAS
Here’s how to protect yourself from “forever chemicals” and mitigate their effects on your health.
How Asthma Inhalers Are Going Green
Traditional inhalers can contribute to climate change — one reason why greener dry-powder inhalers are becoming more popular in Europe.
13 Tips to Make the Holidays More Eco-Friendly
Choosing energy-efficient holiday lights, avoiding gag gifts, and using real plates and flatware are just some of the ways to make your holiday celebration more environmentally friendly.
How Many Microplastic and Nanoplastic Particles Are in a Bottle of Water?
Higher than previously estimated, according to a recent study. Here’s why that matters.
What Is Agrivoltaics?
A hybrid land-use model that pairs solar panels with productive farmland may help us reach our clean-energy goals.
Origin Stories
Experience Life‘s editor in chief reflects on her rural upbringing and how growing up on a family farm allows her to feel more connected to — and appreciative of — the food she eats.
Why Trees Matter So Much — for the Health of People and the Planet
From cooling and cleaning the air to improving our mental and physical well-being, the effects that trees have on our health are more powerful and wide-reaching than many of us may realize — or give them credit for.
How Conventional Farming Practices Harm the Soil
Widespread farming practices like monoculture planting and the use of chemical fertilizers have a detrimental effect on soil health.
7 Ways to Find Food From Good Soil
Some food and farm activists want to see an official “soil health” label — much like the federally regulated organic label — but for now, nothing like this exists to guide consumers. Finding food grown in good soil requires some detective work. Experts offer these clues.