After decades as one of the world’s largest contributors to plastic waste, India has pledged to be single-use plastic free by 2020. But what does that pledge look like in real-time? Huw Kingston finds out. It took me quite a while to find it. I’d searched the whole of our rather luxurious cabin at Reni […]
Under President Donald Trump, federal agencies have chipped away at the reviews and permitting required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws. Earlier this month, the Forest Service proposed a significant overhaul of the NEPA process for logging and development on millions of acres of federal forest and […]
Don’t want to schlep black beans in the backcountry? Dehydrated flakes are light and still make an awesome soup. See the full post >
Why should she apologize for being stronger or faster than a man? She shouldn’t. See the full post >
Just a couple best friends bombing singletrack. The dog is nice enough to let the human eat his dust for a bit, too. Kind-heareted soul. See the full post >
There are more than 3,000 stories in Adventure Journal’s archives, most of which are evergreen, and occasionally we put the best of them back on the home page for new readers to see.—Ed. Have you ever fantasized about being a fire lookout, or living in a cabin high in the mountains, or deep in the […]
They ran out of gas and water, faced snowstorms and tornados, and were arrested for wearing men’s clothes, in their great cross-country motorcycle adventure. See the full post >
Simple: A few minutes of tremendous summit views. That’s it. That’s all. See the full post >
When I took a post-college job as a seasonal ranger at Grand Teton National Park 23 years ago, I noticed right away that my “Smokey Bear” hat carried some serious emotional baggage. As I later wrote in my book, “Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature,” park visitors saw the hat as an icon […]
If you want to figure out how climate change is affecting the world’s highest places you have to go up there yourself to find out. So scientists like John All, who directs Western Washington University’s Mountain Environments Research Institute, spend weeks at a time at the world’s highest elevations to collect pollution samples, flora specimen, […]