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Video: Scotland’s Stunning and Story-Filled Highlands
Sparsely populated, with several rugged mountain ranges that are speckled with forests of Scots pines, the Highlands of Scotland are the only areas in the British Isles that lie within the taiga biome. The Highlands
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Videos: The Natural Worlds of Antarctica and the Falklands
Well into this very cold winter—though still far from its end—I like to dream about the summer that’s happening some other place now, down at the bottom of the world. And two of those
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Afternoon Yawn
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a sleepy fox in Yellowstone National Park. Photographer Tad Sattler and his son
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Traveling Small in the Big Outdoors
Being an inveterate introvert, I avoid large crowds—well, really, even groups of people numbering 15 or more—like the plague. Yet the places that call to me are some of the most jam-packed because they
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Love Is in the Air
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a pair out of Kenya. Photographer Yochi Levanon was on safari in
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More than Travel Guides, Maps Tell Nature’s Stories
Maps are far more than sets of instructions on how to get from Point A to Point B. They tell stories. And whether they’re digital or paper maps, the tales they spin range from
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New Year’s Day 2019: What Outdoor Place Misses You?
My father never had the “urge for going,” as songwriter-singer Joni Mitchell calls it—the desire to travel. I place the blame for that fact squarely on the shoulders of World War II. As a
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Weddell Seal
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a Weddell seal in Antarctica. Photographer Lisa Marun was photographing the wildlife
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