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This list comes from The Revelator’s John Platt and was initially published on that site. If anyone knows a good environmental book, it’s Platt, the editor of an excellent news source and cultural touchstone for all things ecologically minded. – Ed. Summer is normally beach-read season, the time of year when publishers pump out potboilers … Read more

Another outdoors media outlet has published an article saying music played loudly on speakers in the backcountry is totally fine, and if you don’t like hearing it, it’s your own cultural biases and those need to be rethought. Actually, no. Not at all, not even a little bit. That in mind, we’re putting this essay … Read more

Tracing the legendary Rough Stuff Fellowship through archival photos and a bit of analog experimentation, the film “The Pioneers” is now available at GCN+.

A few days after 746 arrived, Condor A0, age 2, entered the flight pen. The first thing she focused on was 746, lounging on a perch. Understanding that she was in a safe place, A0 checked out the food — the carcass of a stillborn calf — then flapped onto a perch and fluffed up … Read more

French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft were lovers of each other and volcanoes. The latter love affair ended their lives, but they produced some of the most spectacular volcano footage ever committed to film before they left this world for the big ring of fire in the sky.

The country likely hit peak sales of gas-burning cars in 2017. The next two years saw car sales decline, then plummet after Covid. Except EVs. They’re the only growth market in the automobile sales world. Lots of reports suggest EVs will overtake gas car sales entirely by the 2030s, and that by the 2040s, the … Read more

What seems like a risk for some may be a walk in the park for others, true, but also, as Jeremy Jones says in this trailer, a no fall zone is a no fall zone, no matter how accustomed to risk you are. At some point, when pursuing the biggest mountains, waves, rivers, the question … Read more

Earlier this month, a massive group of students between the ages of 12-14 and the eight teachers accompanying them on what they thought was a casual afternoon trek had to be rescued when they realized they’d bit off way, way more than they could chew. The group was hiking to the summit of Walmendingerhorn, in … Read more

We know now that the largest recorded fire in New Mexico history was started by an escaped “prescribed burn,” or rather by two. The Hermit’s Peak fire bolted away on April 6 when unexpectedly gusty winds blew sparks beyond control lines. Then the Calf Canyon fire raced off on April 9 when similar winds fanned … Read more