Wilderness Week: cool trees, tiny lizards, big parks, and more!

The sounds in your backyard are unique, go record them

The Verge Review of Animals: Champagne Lady, a wild mustang

How camping technology made us feel at home in nature

The nature of technology

President Obama just quadrupled the size of a protected marine reserve off Hawaii

Now the world’s largest

Meet the Facebook group calling out fake nature photography

Google Doodle celebrates the diverse beauty of US National Parks

"The coolest thing about the national parks is that they exist for everyone."

Tour Yosemite in virtual reality with Barack Obama

If you want to celebrate the 100th anniversary of America’s National Parks Service, there are definitely worse ways than with a virtual reality trip through Yosemite narrated by President Barack Obama. Through the Ages is a roughly 10-minute video shot by virtual reality filmmakers Felix & Paul, in collaboration with the White House, Oculus, and National Geographic.

Google will take you on a 360-degree tour of the Kenai Fjords, Bryce Canyon, and other National Parks

Climate Hackers: One man’s plan to stop global warming by shooting particles into the atmosphere

This year is already on pace to be the warmest on record, setting off another season of heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires around the world. But it would only be the latest record to fall, as 15 of the 16 hottest years have occurred since 2001. In turn, the ice sheets are melting, oceans are rising, hurricanes are increasing in number and intensity, and climate refugees are pouring over borders.

Augmenting nature one plug at a time

August 24th, 2016

I trapped lizards in Los Angeles because their DNA holds secrets

How do lizards cross the road? Their DNA suggests they don't

Bat lickers lick bats in bat cave, get caught

On March 16th, 2015, two hikers named Codey Foster and Dusten Ray Gill licked a tricolor bat in violation of federal law. The bat was hibernating in the Bowden Cave in West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forest, remote enough that if the hikers had

The best outdoor gear for camping, hiking, and exploring nature

Bill Nye discusses our nation's parks and why Earth is the best place to live

Bill Nye may be constantly studying the other planets in our Solar System as the CEO of the Planetary Society, but yesterday, the Science Guy was marveling at what our planet Earth has to offer. Nye stopped by Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Parks Service, which was created by Woodrow Wilson on August 25th, 1916.

Uprooted: how climate change may kick off an artificial migration of trees

Whitebark pines are majestic trees with a whitish, often wind-curled trunk that grow up high in the Rocky and Sierra Mountains, in the Western US. They’re icons of Yellowstone National Park, where they provide high-calorie seeds for many animals, including grizzly bears that eat the seeds before hibernating. Some whitebark pines manage to live for a thousand years, but many of them are now dying.

Welcome to Wilderness Week!

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