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Grand Teton National Park Photo-Essay: from Marmots to Moose and Pikas to Pronghorn
While there are higher mountains in North America, perhaps none are more dramatic than those in the Teton Range. Grand Teton Mountain rises almost 7,000 feet straight up from the Jackson Hole Valley, with no
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What You Need to Know about Carbon Offsets
When Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg made a recent visit to the U.S., she chose to sail here by an emission-free racing yacht instead of to fly. She did what she felt was
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Norway Island Proposes Going Time-Free
There are places in the world and experiences in life that make you forget about time. For me, one of those spots is in Yellowstone National Park, and many of those episodes happen when
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National Parks Are Warming Faster Than the Rest of the U.S.
National parks are some of our favorite wild places, set aside for all of us to enjoy and for wildlife to find some yet remaining, far-too-scarce natural habitats. Here, in these lands, we can
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Flying Fish
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a scene from French Polynesia. Photographer Mark Gottlieb spent an hour on
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Travel Tale: The Environmentalist Elves of Iceland
My guide was dead serious—or, at least, he seemed to be. He told me that there are elves in Iceland. He made this surprising statement while we were in his van, driving to Thingvellir
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Video: A Rocky Mountain National Park High
“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature’s peace
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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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