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This Is Why the Park Service Banned Drones—One Just Crashed Into a Famous Hot Spring

This is why we can’t have nice things

August 7, 2014

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If a Monkey Takes a Photo, No One Owns Copyright

The contested photo likely belongs to neither monkey nor man, but to the public domain

August 7, 2014

Cool Finds

Jump on Massive Trampolines in a Giant Cavern in Wales

This sounds like fun: jumping on trampolines 180 feet above the floor of a giant cavern

August 7, 2014

Catalonia

Barcelona’s Turning Its Old Olympic Stadium Into a Virtual Reality Themepark

At Barcelona’s Olympic Stadium, you can race a virtual Olympian

August 7, 2014

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Copenhagen Might Install a Giant, Energy-Gathering Duck in Its Harbor

The duck would be both a tourist attraction and a means of helping the city become carbon-neutral by 2025

August 5, 2014

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Civil War Battlefields Are Overrun With Deer

The Parks Department is going to spend $1.8 million to have hunters cull them

August 4, 2014

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With Wildfire Still Burning in Yosemite, Sequoias, At Least, Are Safe

Up and down the West Coast, extraordinary fire seasons are becoming more common—and making climate change worse

July 31, 2014

New Research

Saharan Dust Helped Build the Bahamas

Minerals blown off the Sahara fuel the microbes that undergird the Bahaman ecosystem

July 28, 2014

Cool Finds

This Market Along the Burma-China Border Is a Veritable Noah’s Ark of Critically Endangered Animals

Photographer Alex Hofford exposed the extent of the wildlife trade openly taking place at this infamous market

July 25, 2014

Austria

Cycle Through History on the Iron Curtain Trail

The trail stretches 4,225 miles from the Barents to the Black Sea

July 24, 2014

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This 71-Year-Old Just Set a Record With His 1,673th Ascent of Mt. Fuji

The mountaineer says that now he’s ready to tackle Everest

July 21, 2014

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People are Traveling to War Zones for Tourism

Because adventure travel just hasn’t gone far enough

July 16, 2014

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Yes, Yellowstone’s Roads Just Melted. No, There’s No Reason to Panic

Yellowstone’s melting roads, while neat, aren’t as unusual as you’d think

July 15, 2014

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With A $10,000 Kit Your Car Could (Kind of) Drive Itself

Instead of waiting to buy a self-driving car, why not give the car you already own an update?

July 11, 2014

New Research

Forget the Fastest Route. Why Not Use Digital Maps to Plan the Most Beautiful Instead?

Yahoo is developing an algorithm that will allow you to choose the scenic route

July 9, 2014

Cool Finds

See a Fire-Breathing Dragon Bridge in Vietnam

A bridge in Da Nang breathes fire and water every weekend

July 7, 2014

Cool Finds

British Airways’ New Blankets Pick Up On and Display Your Anxiety

The blankets are only in the experimental phase right now, however

July 3, 2014

Cool Finds

There’s a Secret Pool in the Mojave Desert

Part art project, part public pool, this artificial oasis will take some effort to get to

July 1, 2014

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UNESCO Just Announced the 1000th World Heritage Site

Botswana’s lush Okavango Delta claims the slot

July 1, 2014

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Archaeologists Are Trying To Figure Out Exactly Where Plymouth Was

A new excavation is looking into the location of the famous colony

June 25, 2014