In February 2017, residents on the Norwegian island of Sotra found a Cuvier’s beaked whale stranded on a beach in southwestern Norway. It wasn’t the first...
Laura Kiniry is an award-winning journalist specializing in nature, travel, and the outdoors. When she’s not out traversing Norway’s southern fjords or tracking elephants on foot in Ghana, you can find her at home in San Francisco, CA, writing about her adventures and rediscovering her own backyard. Her articles have ranged from What We Can Learn From the Sámi Tradition of Reading Snow to going On the Job with Japan’s Legendary Female Ama Divers.
Kiniry contributes regularly to such publications as Smithsonianmag.com, Atlas Obscura, BBC Travel, and Conde Nast Traveler, as well as several AAA outlets. She’s visited six continents (and counting!), spent one of her favorite summers to date working in Montana’s Glacier National Park, and embarked on a six-month backpacking journey through New Zealand, Australia, and Thailand. Occasionally she harvests olives in Italy.
Follow her travels on Instagram at @laurajkin.
In February 2017, residents on the Norwegian island of Sotra found a Cuvier’s beaked whale stranded on a beach in southwestern Norway. It wasn’t the first...
In 2019, an independent researcher caught sight of a tiny creature on a trail camera in Northern California’s Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve. Scientists were...
We were kayaking among patches of floating ice, penguins porpoising through the waters between us, when our guide got the call over the radio. "Who here is...
When it comes to Scottish wildlife, there’s one creature in particular that attracts more tourists than any other. ‘Nessie,’ as she’s known, is an enormous...
Around 850 CE, an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi was maintaining his livestock when together, they happened upon an unusual plant with berries. The animals...
Every year on the first day of summer, Iceland’s Horticultural School (part of the country’s agricultural university in Hveragerði) opens its doors to the...
When a group of local and government organizations got together to create a pilot portion of the Via Dinarica—a network of long-distance hiking trails...
On a recent safari trip in Malawi’s Liwonde National Park, the “Big Five” animals associated with Africa’s national parks were nowhere in sight. That’s when I...
The roads in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, can reach peak capacity during the summer months, but it's not just because of vehicular traffic. Each year beginning...
In the autumn of 1973, wilderness writer and naturalist Peter Matthiessen joined preeminent field biologist George Schaller high in Nepal's Himalayan...
When naturalist and conservationist John Muir first happened upon California's Yosemite Valley in 1868, it was love at first sight. He was taken with its...
I’d been on Kangaroo Island for less than an hour when I spotted my first bit of wildlife: a koala perched high in the branches of a blue-gum eucalyptus tree....
On my first visit to Africa in 2012, I spent a few days safariing through Kenya’s breathtaking Maasai Mara. The sheer breadth of wildlife blew me away. There...
South Africa's Cape Town is a place unlike any other. Perched along the waters of the continent's southwest coast, this port city is a multicultural...
In 1960, English primatologist Jane Goodall made her first trek into what was then the little-known world of wild chimpanzees. Traveling to what’s now...
Indigenous activists have always been front and center in protecting the Earth and its resources, and we can all learn from their deep spiritual, cultural and...
In January 2020, eastern Australia was in peril. Devastating bushfires had been sweeping through much of the region for the last few months, escalated by...
While traveling along Iceland’s South Coast, our group came upon a rocky outcrop on the side of the road. “Over there is where the elves live,” said our guide...
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