The Best Backpacking Tent I’ve Ever Used
Nemo’s 1.75-pound Hornet Elite 2P is shockingly livable for an ultralight shelter
How Weather Affects Your Cell Signal
Using a phone outdoors? This is what you need to know to stay in touch.
This Satellite Will Be the Future of Storm Tracking
NOAA’s new satellite will make forecasting devastating storms (and epic powder days) more accurate than ever
Nine Lessons from a Year Living on the Road
From the mundane (check the water in your batteries) to the brash (sell your home)
Our Favorite Bike Kit for Variable Spring Conditions
Turns out Polartec rules the market when it comes to bike clothing made for weather that's all over the map
The Death Blow
When forecasts called for a massive tornado in central Oklahoma in 2013, storm chasers flocked to the area. Then all hell broke loose.
The 5 Principles of Extreme Weather Survival
Survival isn't about copying the stuff you see Bear Grylls do. Here's what should you do if you're caught outside in extreme weather.
One Man's Quest to Find the Wild Origins of the Chile Pepper
Wandering the Sonoran Desert in search of the chiltepin—the ancestor to domesticated chile peppers—with MacArthur genius Gary Paul Nabhan
In Praise of the Unforgiving Arctic
As a polar explorer, I've spent more than a year of my life living on the ice in one of the harshest environments on the planet. And I love it.
Working on Mount Washington in the World's Harshest Weather
Ryan Knapp is a weather observer and meteorologist at the Mount Washington Weather Station in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Winters are windy, icy, and frigid. Summers aren't much better. We called him up to ask what it's like to be knocked down by wind and how he endures working in some of the world's worst weather.
In Praise of Wildfire
It's destructive, beautiful, and critical for our ecosystem
In Praise of Rain
What ruins one man's day can transform another's
The Terrifying, More Than a Little Crazy Work of a Stormchaser
For almost 40 years, Don MacGorman has launched truck-sized data balloons into storms while enduring drenching rain and potentially lethal hail. For the National Severe Storms Laboratory physicist who literally wrote the book on lightning, it's all just another day's work.
An Incredible Time-Lapse of Monsoon Season
Longtime storm chaser and timelapse director, Mike Oblinski decided to remove all color except for black and white in his video, 'Pulse'.
