For East Coasters, finding large swaths of untouched wilderness is hard enough as it is. A newly revived pipeline project could make it even harder.  Intended to ferry natural gas from Northern West Virginia to Southern Virginia, the 300-mile-long Mountain Valley Pipeline was first proposed in 2015. Since then, conservation nonprofits and local recreationists have [...]

“We’re super excited,” said Mike Nelson, one of the North Dakota’s champion sculptors, in an interview with Lake Geneva Regional News after the win. He was joined by his team members Jay Ray and Josh Zeis. All are residents of Fargo, North Dakota. The North Dakota team, dubbed “Team Jay Ray w/Snowkraft” in honor of [...]

If you work a regular desk job, it can be hard to make time for nature during the work week. Fortunately, we have a solution: Bring nature to the office. Before you start having flashbacks about that time a bird flew through an open window and got trapped in the conference room, take a deep [...]

This weekend, it was colder in New Hampshire than at the South Pole. On Saturday, amid the dangerous “Arctic Freeze” that swept across New England, the weather observatory atop New Hampshire’s 6,288-foot Mount Washington recorded its lowest-ever wind chill: -108°F. That’s an air temperature of -46°F with 127-mile-per-hour gusts. (For comparison, the South Pole is [...]

How will you leave your mark on this world? That’s the overarching theme of the 5th episode of The Climb, HBO Max’s gripping reality climbing competition. In this episode, host and legendary climber Chris Sharma takes the six remaining amateurs to an exotic new location he’s never been to himself but promises it will “rock [...]

The Australian northern quoll has an alarmingly short lifespan. According to new research, the reason might be an all-consuming obsession with sex.  Male northern quolls, which are house cat-sized marsupials endemic to Australia, tend to die after a single breeding season, whereas females can live for four years or longer in the wild. For years, [...]

The higher the stakes, the higher the cliffs. As the contestant pool gets whittled down on HBO Max’s adventure reality show The Climb, host Chris Sharma ups the ante and the size of the rock. He brings the remaining contestants, vying for a $100,000 cash prize and a sponsorship from prAna, to his literal backyard [...]

In a new book summarizing one of the longest happiness studies ever completed, researchers reveal that it’s not what you do for exercise but who you do it with that matters. The book, called The Good Life, details the results of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which has been ongoing for more than 80 [...]

On June 13, 2020, Esther Nakajjigo, a Colorado-based Ugandan human rights activist, was killed in Arches National Park, Utah, when a metal gate flew open in a gust of wind and impaled her car. Nakajjigo was 25 years old and had moved to Colorado the previous year to attend the Watson Institute for International and [...]

If you’re already a savvy shopper, you know now is the time to take advantage of big sales on outdoor gear. With the holidays over and shops desperate to offload last season’s product, huge markdowns abound. Fortunately, America’s most popular outdoor gear store is no exception. REI is currently offering up to 79% off select [...]