An Unsettling Crime at the Top of the World
In the isolated Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, some 800 miles from the North Pole, the tiny town of Longyearben is the kind of place where people go to start their lives over. With brightly colore...
25 Mar 202033min
When 18 Tigers Were Let Loose in Zanesville, Ohio
Now here’s a mind-boggling fact: there are more tigers in captivity in the United States right now than all of the wild tigers in the world combined. This is due to loopholes in the laws governing big...
18 Mar 202027min
What It’s Really Like Being on ‘Naked and Afraid’
When experienced wilderness guide Blair Braverman was invited to audition for the Discovery Channel reality show ‘Naked and Afraid,’ she saw it as a chance to live out a childhood fantasy. Here was an...
11 Mar 202031min
The Dawn of a New Sports Bra Era
Recent years have seen all kinds of major progress in outdoor sports equipment, from maximalist running shoes to electric bikes to crazy-lightweight camping gear. But the most important breakthroughs ...
5 Mar 202033min
How Nature Heals an Injured Brain
After suffering a brain injury in a bicycle accident, Sarah Allely found it difficult to read, write, and watch television. She struggled with everyday tasks. Eventually, she realized that the only wa...
26 Feb 202049min
What A.I. Hears in the Rainforest
Topher White founded the nonprofit Rainforest Connection with the intent of creating a low-cost monitor that could help remote communities in their efforts to halt illegal logging, which is an enormou...
19 Feb 202029min
A Tale of Two Dramatic Big-Wave Rescues
Every winter, the Pacific Ocean produces massive swells that roll across the open sea and crash into the Hawaiian island of Oahu. For more than 50 years, the surf world has gathered here, on the North...
12 Feb 202039min
A Long-Shot Bid to Save the Monarch Butterfly
Conservationists hoping to protect a threatened wild species tend to take a standard set of actions. These can involve political campaigns, lawsuits, and media outreach. But sometimes it’s the unexpec...
5 Feb 202029min
