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Should People Be Allowed to Boat Through Yellowstone?
Conservationists and recreational paddlers are split on whether to open up remaining National Parks waterways to boaters
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A Beefalo Invasion Is Causing Trouble in the Grand Canyon
Hundreds of the hybrid animals are drying up water resources and messing with the ecosystem, eliciting calls for culling
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Chilean Volcano Erupts in the Early Morning
The 9,000-foot volcano spewed ash, smoke and lava high into the air
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Amazing Ruins of a Long Lost City Discovered in Honduras
A scientific expedition into the depths of the Honduran rain forest discovered a lost city
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The Fourth Tallest Man-made Structure Isn’t a Building at All
TV towers and power station chimneys are some less well-known record-breakers in the history of super-tall structures
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It’s Now Legal to Book a Cruise to Cuba
A Canadian cruise line is allowing Americans to legally book a trip around Cuba
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Statisticians Reveal the Best Place to Wait Out a Zombie Apocalypse
You’ll want to head for the Rocky Mountains
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Would You Live in an Antarctic Penguin Post Office?
Applications soar at post office in Port Lockroy, Antarctica
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Adultery Is Now Legal in South Korea
62 years after the passage of a morality law, spouses can’t be prosecuted for extramarital affairs
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Forget the Race to the Moon. These Rovers Will Race on the Moon.
It’s going to be a pretty slow race, however
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Amsterdam Is Out of Bike Parking
The city will create 40,000 new bike parking spaces by 2030
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The Russian Village Entirely Populated by Tightrope Walkers
The circus-skill tradition goes back so far in tiny Tsovkra-1 that no one knows quite how or why it started—but it may end before long
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See the Winter of Our Discontent…From Space
NASA photo of the eastern United States confirms it’s really, really cold out there
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President Obama Announces a Trio of New National Monuments
The sites include a historic neighborhood in Chicago, a former internment camp in Hawaii and a canyon in Colorado
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2014 Was National Parks’ Most-Visited Year Ever
Last year broke records with over 292 million visits
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Everest Climbers Now Prohibited From Taking One Deadly Route
Nepal announces that the Khumbu Icefall, where 16 sherpa were killed last year, is now off-limits
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Only 1 in 4 Americans Would Take a Free Space Flight
Americans are still skeptical about some aspects of space travel
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Lack of Snow Forced the Iditarod to Move Its Track
Instead of starting in Willow, Alaska, this year, the race will start 300 miles north in Fairbanks
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Tourist Trash Has Changed the Color of Yellowstone’s Morning Glory Pool
Researchers have found proof of what caused a hot spring’s drastic color modification—it’s people, of course
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These Bells Play Seismic Shifts
Watch as UC Berkeley’s bells play the earth’s “natural frequencies”
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