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Let’s reduce health care costs by getting outdoors, eating better, and pushing for progressive legislation

When photographer David Gonzales Buendia learned that the expedition sailing ship Barba was looking for a resident photographer he was all aboard.

From the mundane (check the water in your batteries) to the brash (sell your home)

This film is one of the coolest night sky time-lapse films we've seen.

Wildlife Filmmaker Alex Goetz is on a mission. He values wildlife conservation to a degree that he's dedicated his life to it.

After Michael Coleman debuted his last film 'John Muir - Coming Home', Robert Hanna, Muir's great-great-grandson reached out over their mutual love of conservation. They began chatting about a new project which became this film 'The Last Oasis'.

Turns out extending your lifespan is pretty damn easy. Just follow these definitive, scientific, time-tested methods.

Grab a car and a buddy, then check out 40 miles of mysterious, awesome outdoor art installations

The author moved to the United States at eight years old and took her first camping trip soon after. The outdoors became an escape from the stressors of being a new American and a reminder that enjoying nature can be a privilege in itself.

It takes a certain kind of person to willingly stand outside in -20-degree temperatures.

It's destructive, beautiful, and critical for our ecosystem

The fight for Standing Rock took the media by storm in November 2016. From cell phones to news cameras, images of violence, protest, and unrest surfaced on every major media outlet.

In South Florida, cane toads are so numerous that they seem to be dropping from the sky. They're overtaking parking lots and backyards, can weigh almost six pounds, and pack enough poison to kill pets. Why the surge?

The Dakota Access protests made headlines, but there’s a bigger war being waged against pipelines across the country that threaten our favorite parks and forests

Paul Hawken presents a bold plan to beat back climate change based on solutions already within our grasp. Do any of them stand a chance?

As Arctic sea ice melts, business for Alaskan passenger ships is booming. Can the fragile region handle the traffic?

Is it time for environmental activists to take a different, more potent approach to mobilizing?

In 1965, Outward Bound took 28 women into the great outdoors to paddle lakes, hike mountains, and catch fish. They forged a bond that's unlike any other.

The premise sounds nice: spend all your time off the grid in a cliffside dwelling with great views. We asked a real hermit what else the job entails.

Every year, the Smithsonian holds a photo contest highlighting some of the best photographs from around the world. Here are our favorite finalists.

Professional musher Aliy Zirkle was prepared for the minus-50-degree temperatures and the brutally long distances of the Iditarod. What she didn't expect was a midnight attack by a snowmobile-riding stranger halfway through the 1,000-mile course.

The same people and organizations we admire for protecting our wild places also have a history of being apathetic—or plain antagonistic—toward issues of race and social justice

Florence Williams has been writing about the tangible benefits of getting outdoors for years. Presenting the best of what she's learned.

Our devices are increasingly taking us out of reality, even when we're in nature. Here's how to get back into it.

Watch as resident Instagram expert lays out his tips to make the most of the medium.

Behind the scenes with the producers who spent thousands of hours in the Himalayas to capture first-of-its-kind footage of four snow leopards

Watch as resident Instagram expert Jakob Schiller lays out his tips for editing your photos for Instagram.

As a biologist and photographer, Aidan Maccormick spends much of his time visiting distant places far from home. All the while, like most of us, his home turf was unexplored and calling to him.

The fiberglass menagerie before you is made up of 34 animatronic beasts, created for Spy in the Wild, a Nature miniseries on PBS in which cameras disguised as animals embed with the real beasts for an immersive take on the nature documentary.

House Bill 621 is dead, but 622 would do much to undermine protections for our most treasured public lands

On Kauai, residents worry less about whether genetically-modified food is safe to eat and more about what the pesticides used to test them are doing to their bodies. In an excerpt from his new book, 'Food Fight,' the author hits the ground to find out just what's happening.

The Army Corps of Engineers has been directed to grant the final easement that stands in the pipeline’s way, presenting the Standing Rock movement with its first real challenge

In honor of �����ԹϺ���'s 40th anniversary, we're selecting our all-time favorite gear, advice, accomplishments, and people. To kick things off, we picked the most memorable places in the world.

Every gun sold gets taxed—and those taxes go directly to wildlife and land conservation

'Chasing Coral,' a new film premiering at Sundance, chronicles the desperate adventure of documenting the most imperiled ecosystems on earth

Most of us hit the outdoors seeking calm and quiet, but Chuck Thompson prefers to blast a little 38 Special by his campfires. Still, even a rustic headbanger like him has to wonder if the coming age of total connectivity in otherwise wild places is good for bees, beasts, and man.

He's spent the last three years chronicling the lives of couples who have swapped mainstream society for rare kind of freedom

Has a young Dutchman found the solution to all that plastic in our oceans?

The greatest gift a parent can give is teaching their kids to dust off and keep going

When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska—be it a sea otter, polar bear, or humpback whale—veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call. Her necropsies reveal cause of death and causes for concern as climate change frees up new pathogens and other dangers in a vast, thawing north.

With the weight of the entire U.S. Government bearing down on them, the Gwich'in people gather together to restore their unified heartbeat.

We’re going to make your first smart decision of the new year a quick and easy one

Meet the Japanese farmers and hunters defending their homeland from the ruthless hogs that—by the way—may have wandered over from Fukushima

Staring down a grizzly, setting off explosives, acting onstage—all these activities were part of Red Bull’s Performance Under Pressure camp. I went for a week and came away a different, more mindful athlete.

If posting to your feed is an act of love, these parks had the most adored vistas of the year

Between a Grammy nomination and prepping for a 2017 tour, musician Scott Hansen spoke with us about his obsession with the outdoors

Was it the time travelers, the jaguar people, or the song from Pocahontas? All I know is that, as my exploration of psychedelics grew from a few campout mushrooms to full-on ayahuasca ceremonies, I felt better than I ever had in my life.

It's a mixed bag

Trained collectors are trekking into remote parts of the Southwest in hopes of discovering hardy new hops that can withstand warming temperatures

What environmentalists hope to accomplish before the 44th president leaves office

When Pete Rojwongsuriya set out on his trip to Ecuador, he thought he'd spend a maximum of 2 weeks. But what he found, far surpassed what two weeks of travel would allow.

The decision by the Army Corps of Engineers to block the Dakota Access Pipeline arrived just as internal tensions threatened to fracture Standing Rock's Oceti Sakowin camp

Wolf howls, bird songs, crickets, frogs—soundscapes contain clues to not only what's going on around us but also who we are.

In Baltimore, a newly mandatory Outward Bound program brings together police and local kids to take steps toward easing tensions

In 'The Unnatural World,' journalist David Biello argues that while humans have gotten Earth into a mess, we also have the power to fix it

We all dream of buying that secluded wilderness retreat. But what does it have to offer when the seclusion and wilderness turn out to be mostly in our imagination? Actually, a lot.

A new workplace grading system from the CDC puts a high premium on offices that embrace nature and encourage workers to be active

In this episode from the Salomon TV, the crew travels with Alan Hubbard to Mount Forel in Greenland.

When it comes to the nature of attraction, the essayist and novelist—whose dozen books include "The Maytrees," about lifelong love on Cape Cod—has learned a thing or two. So when we asked her for some practical wisdom, she didn’t hesitate to dish out a little radical honesty.

A number of recent bloody encounters with aggressive birds of prey in the Pacific Northwest has frightened residents enough that they've started arming themselves with sticks and flashlights and strapping on hard hats before going out at night

If you needed one more reason to have anxiety about November 8, we found it: the outcome could have a profound impact on the fight over America’s open spaces

Filmmaker Jessica Peterson traveled to the falls with her husband ten years ago and was determined to come back and film it and the mile-high mist it emits, and this was the result.

Yes, we should limit how much time our kids spend in front of screens, but we're going about it the wrong way

People are drawing closer to nature with every visit. Nature's Lament from photographer Aaron Keigher, asks the question "What will be nature's lament?"

With the goose-induced emergency landing once again in the spotlight, we look back on the bloody, bizarre response in New York City parks

It’s easier than you think to find a quiet trail in the concrete jungle. To prove it, we asked our Instagram followers how they find nature in their cities. Here are 10 of our favorite shots.

Climate change and ocean acidification have killed off one of the most spectacular features on the planet.

Cordoning off half of the area of Earth is the only way to protect the world’s vulnerable wildlife and ecosystems

Parks are for people, and people today want to be able to share their wildnerness experience with their friends online

You say that you love the earth, but do you love it as much as Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle? We talked to the creators of the Ecosex Manifesto about what it means to be ecosexual.

Ian Frazier has had it with people calling favorite outdoor spots “cathedrals,” “shrines,” and “sacred spaces.” Here's why.

Often confused with the set from Avatar, Zhangjiajie National Park offers the world's most extensive limestone pillars.

Climate change is affecting America’s recreation meccas—from Yosemite to Yellowstone—in profound ways. As the planet heats up and weather patterns shift, so will the ways we interact with the outdoors.

Matthew Christiansen spent his summer digging ditches, cutting tree branches, and maintaining trails for the Student Conservation Association and U.S Forest Service.

Water-reporting vet John Fleck's new book explores the ways the West is dealing with drought, and it's not all gloom and doom

Without all the distraction of stop lights and traffic, wilderness running connects Callon with the natural world around him.

For his latest timelapse project, filmmaker Mike Zorger wanted to find a spot East Coast with Western-like light pollution, despite major metropolitan areas and condensed population

Once released, the formerly incarcerated face a daunting set of challenges­—a job, a place to live, and, most urgently, breaking the cycle of bad friends and bad habits that can lead to more prison time. Now scientists and activists are asking whether nature may be essential to helping them build new lives.

To get bit by one is to experience something like a gunshot wound. And they’re multiplying.