Adventure

11 Best Snorkeling Spots in America

11 Best Snorkeling Spots in America

For ocean lovers, there’s almost nothing more exciting than snorkeling and exploring underwater worlds. Most of the time that’s done in tropical places with vibrant coral reefs and colorful fish swimming around. Some of the places on this list are, in fact, exactly that, but there’s also a few that might surprise you. Here are […]

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    Can Virtual Reality Help Connect More People to Nature?

    Can Virtual Reality Help Connect More People to Nature?

    The digital revolution is breaking new ground every day. Technology has a way of doing that. I remember when Hewlett-Packard introduced its first “laptop” computer, which stored a page and a half of writing. It revolutionized my life as a newspaper columnist, allowing me to write on planes or in a tent and submit articles […]

    Paddleboarder Sets Out on Epic Journey to Fight Plastic Pollution

    Paddleboarder Sets Out on Epic Journey to Fight Plastic Pollution

    Lizzie Carr, an adventurer and environmentalist based in the UK, has set off on a three-week, 400 mile journey with only her stand up paddleboard and 30kg of supplies to bring awareness to plastic pollution. [instagram https://instagram.com/p/BFEY1P3RRWE expand=1] According to The Guardian, she set off from the most southern point of the UK’s connected waterways, the […]

    Celebrating John Muir’s Incessant Study That Saved Yosemite National Park

    Celebrating John Muir’s Incessant Study That Saved Yosemite National Park

    Run a Google search on naturalist and preservationist John Muir and you will quickly turn up one of his best-known, yet abbreviated, sayings: “The mountains are calling and I must go.” It’s a compelling quote that says it all for many outdoor lovers, which may explain why it’s printed widely on mugs, t-shirts, posters and […]

    12 Kid-Friendly National Parks

    12 Kid-Friendly National Parks

    By Hallie Smith Our national parks can be fun for the whole family. Here are a few parks that are especially kid-friendly and great destinations for National Park Week. This year marks the centennial year of the National Park Service, so there is no better time to teach our children how precious our national parks […]

    The National Park Service Is Turning 100 and You’re Invited

    The National Park Service Is Turning 100 and You’re Invited

    Big birthdays can be tough to plan, from deciding how to have fun and satisfy competing friend groups, to crafting party invitations that tactfully say, “No, I am not too old for presents.” But the National Park Service, which will celebrate its centennial on Aug. 25, knows there’s only one way to ensure a flawless birthday bash: […]

    Kayaking Chile’s Free-Flowing Pascua River

    Kayaking Chile’s Free-Flowing Pascua River

    The remote beach was empty except for me and my companions. The broad expanse of sea was empty, too and I squinted at the horizon, looking for a human shape. This was two years ago, deep in southern Chile and five of us had just descended the bottom section of the Pascua—a burly, glacier-fed river—by […]

    David Suzuki: Get Outside!

    David Suzuki: Get Outside!

    For the most part, our brains didn’t evolve in cities. But in a few decades, almost 70 percent of the world’s people will live in urban environments. Despite the prosperity we associate with cities, urbanization presents a major health challenge. Cities, with their accelerated pace of life, can be stressful. The results are seen in […]