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Motivated by adventure, science, and awe at the power of nature, stormchasers are risking it all to get closer to tornadoes than ever before. Last spring, during the deadly Oklahoma City outbreaks, they got more than they bargained for.
Stormchasers are risking everything to get closer to tornadoes than ever before. Last spring, during the deadly Oklahoma City outbreaks, they got more than they bargained for. Read the full story.
We hit up the experts for their ski-season predictions. Will it be a blower year?
A new documentary features scientists, policy makers and activists who are all wrangling for a cleaner, clearer lake. Watch the full film here.
In 1962 in Haiti, Clairvius Narcisse was certified dead and buried. Days later, he was raised from the grave by a sorcerer and became a will-less zombie slave. In 1980, a Haitian psychiatrist found him. In 1983, a Harvard ethnobotanist discovered the secret of his poisoning. And in 1985, a reporter traveled to Haiti to (literally) unearth the true story.
Warming, polluted waters and increasingly acidic ocean chemistry are landing a one-two punch on marine ecosystems and reef colonies. A new database brings dying corals to the surface.
Meth-like substance in Craze and Detonate
For years, Bob Shacochis was obsessed with a fish, South America's fighting golden dorado. But when he followed that dream to Argentina's Iberá Marsh, he found that he wasn't the only one with a vision that could pull him under.
Appeals court upholds ruling that evidence is “flimsy and speculative”
Victor Kovats was an experience wingsuit flier
Joel Tudor's longboard revival is showcased in a new documentary
State lawmakers pulled a bill that would have require cyclists to register their bike and restrict when and where cycling is allowed.
Les Stroud, the most trusted name in survival, has seen it all—and lived to tell about it. Next time you’re up a creek, you should probably do what he says.
Budding explorer Sonya Baumstein becomes the first person to SUP across the Bering Strait
New Jersey’s post-Sandy strategy: massive resistance to rising seas
5 stories by our editors about near-death experiences and how they survived.
Geologist Orrin Pilkey predicted exactly what a storm like Sandy would do to the mid-Atlantic coast and New York City. On a tour of destruction after the deluge, he and David Gessner ponder a troubling question: Why are people rebuilding, as if all this isn't going to happen again?
The billions in federal Sandy relief will mainly be used to rebuild what was there before
Flooding along Colorado's Front Range kept cyclists off their bikes for days. Now, they're back on the roads with a new sense of camaraderie.
How the federal government tried to ruin my 30th birthday (and how I didn’t let them).
Local radio news director is leading caravan into the park
Ann Bender will once again be tried for the murder of her husband, an American financier who built a lavish mansion in the wilds of Costa Rica. This is what we know.
Filmed by French raptor activist Jacques Olivier Travers
A San Francisco Bay Area man wants you to get on the water—without getting off your bike
You’re headed out on your first hut trip. Here’s what you need to know.
