This year's World Extreme Skiing Championships will feature two types of descent: Hail Mary and Mother of God

The Chiricahua Mountains are as rugged and diverse as the Galápagos but have one big advantage: They're right here at home.

Swing a hammer, light a fuse, and let the dams come tumbling down. So goes the cry these days on American rivers, where vandals of every stripe—enviros and fishermen and interior secretaries, among others—wage battle to uncork the nation's bound-up waters.

He's named for a Stone Age weapon. He may be nuts as a bunny. But sometimes it's nice to have a Neanderthal at your side.

The Great Reinhold Messner unmasks his latest conquest

Can you feel it coming? Heat, hail, snow, rain. Wind, drought, flood, pain. Are you tired of waiting? Then hurry to Bangladesh, where the skies have already broken.

They go to eastern Honduras, the wildest stretch of idyll that our hemisphere has to offer

Dams break and walls of water sweep away cars like matchboxes. Time to call off the shaman.

For 90 million years the turtles have massed to lay their eggs. This time they gathered for their own mass murder…