Heather Hansman is Outside Online’s environmental columnist and a frequent contributor to Culture Notebook. She is the author of Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West.
This newest crop of literature considers tricky questions about the outdoors (what to do after a bear attack, for instance) from the comfort of the indoors.
A certain amount of climate change is already locked in, but that doesn't mean we need to be hopeless.
What happens if nature, humanity—or both—disappear or run amok? These new releases make a few terrifying (and hopefully wrong) guesses.
Last January the 36-year-old California native launched the project, which he anticipated would take place over three winters.
Here are the new movie options that make us most excited to stay inside.
Deep dives into penguins' sexual deviance, philosophical rambles across landscapes, obscure forensic-ecology facts, and more.
Outdoor athletes have plenty of influence on Instagram. Protect Our Winters wants to wield it in the halls of Congress.
In a new documentary, 'The Salad Days,' river runner and advocate Herm Hoops takes to the water one last time.
Naomi Klein baldly states the urgency of the climate crisis and why we need a massive, expensive infrastructure deal to address it.
Summer jams can't last forever. The Highwomen lead the way on our mix for fall road trips and campouts.
As delegates for the UN's Climate Action Summit convene in New York, the real leaders are the young people pushing for climate justice in the streets.
Even as the green movement works toward building an outdoor community that reflects America's changing demographics, anti-immigration and alt-right groups are using the environment as a weapon.
Talking with someone while hiking can help you get to know a lot about a person.
Two new books show the scary and whimsical sides of our constant outdoor companions.
Four authors on paying attention, savoring silence, getting off the grid, and living peaceably with technology.