After months of serving as acting Interior Secretary, David Bernhardt officially confirmed to the top role. See the full post >

If you repeatedly huck yourself over ledges testing fate, karma, your personal relationship with whatever creator you choose, etc., are you impervious to fear? Or is an addiction to fear maybe a little closer? A new film from Montage Productions called Voices of Fear, might not exactly answer those questions, but it allows some of […]

Researchers at Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve pulled a 140-pound Burmese python out of the swamp this week, and promptly posted a public service selfie with the big constrictor. The 17-foot snake was the largest ever found in the preserve, and she was full of developing eggs. The team removed the python from the park, […]

Since 1954 Mount Everest has had a recognized, though sometimes disputed elevation of 29,029 feet. Nepali scientists are headed up the mountain this spring for a more detailed measuring. See the full post >

For many Jeep enthusiasts and overlanders who may be Jeep-curious, the release of the 2020 Jeep Gladiator pickup is the story of the year. Excitement about that story will reach a fever pitch at this year’s Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah, an annual gathering showing off Jeep concepts and trail rigs. Jeep recently released […]

Nepal’s widows are one of the least understood and most poorly-treated minorities in the world. Nicola Zolin spent time with one woman who’s doing her best to change all that. Sunita Thapa’s husband was violent, and beat her repeatedly before leaving her with two sons and two daughters. She has never heard from him again. […]

New book shows the wild side of cows and dives into how closely the human and cow histories intertwine. See the full post >

New film from Patagonia shows just what’s at stake in the fight for wild salmon. See the full post >

Ticks and the diseases they carry are spreading so quickly across the United States — likely driven by climate change — that the government is having trouble keeping up with the data. In the past most cases of Lyme disease, the country’s most common tick-borne illness, occurred in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and Upper Midwest states. […]

Over the weekend, at the Carlsbad Highlands Ecological Reserve in northern San Diego County, CA Dept of Fish and Wildlife officers began citing mountain bike riders for riding in a reserve that is technically closed to bikes, but which hadn’t been marked that way for years. CAFDW officers have periodically installed signs informing riders that […]