The Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx is sitting empty and developers are lining up for the right to turn it into a destination. One of the two leading candidates is Young Woo & Associates, which has partnered with gym Brooklyn Boulders to propose the massive climbing project. Its rival also is building on superlatives: Wall [ more... ]

Don’t get too excited — it’s a turtle orgy. Scientists have found nine pairs of fossilized reptiles who died in the midst of attempting to pass their DNA into the future in the Messel Fossil Pit, located south of Frankfurt, Germany. “There is no doubt in my mind. These animals died some 47 million years [ more... ]

You’re familiar with the Appalachian Trail. It’s the place your friend of a friend hiked barefoot and a former southern governor claimed to be hanging out during his affair with a woman in South America. But are you familiar with the North Country National Scenic Trail? The North Country trail runs from North Dakota into [ more... ]

Los Angeles is suing the town of Mammoth Lakers over water, adding another chapter in the long power struggle between the sprawling beast in the south and the mostly blue collar residents of the eastern Sierra. The gist is that L.A. has water rights to Mammoth Creek dating to 1905, and when Mammoth was a [ more... ]

Rain ruined your hurricane-season trip to Florida? No it didn’t. Grab the camera, a cooler, and sit on the covered balcony watching guys jump piers with their kiteboards. So why was the guy running a camera that just happened to catch the miraculous jump? Well, they saw him do it once before and got setup. The sports side of weather weirding; some good news out of climate change.

Aspen unquestionably has been at the forefront of trying to find ways to fight the climate change that could put it out of business within decades, and its latest step is the biggest yet: The company is spending $6 million to capture methane from a coal mine in Somerset and convert it into electricity that [ more... ]

Across the West, states, parks, and municipalities have banned campfires to help prevent the kind of devastating wildfires that are blazing across the region and in Colorado in particular. But Utah, which has suffered 20 fires started by wayward bullets in this season alone, including one that forced evacuation of 2,300 families, won’t do more [ more... ]

Their solution? Send people home to change. In an effort to curb the heavy partying that goes on from last chair through the night without a break, the Austrian ski resort of St Anton am Arlberg has convinced bar owners to ask people in ski attire to go home and change once it hits 8pm. [ more... ]

Yellowstone National Park has 3,900 bison, which can weigh 2,000 pounds and run up to 30 mph, and you’d generally want to steer clear of them. But Robert Dea of Massachusetts didn’t retreat when an aggressive male came near where he was sitting in the Norris campground. Though Dea didn’t provoke the bison, he also [ more... ]

Tyssedal was home to a deeply carved fjord and pristine granite faces. Then industry moved in and chased the wonder away. Then industry went bankrupt and left a massive industrial structure built into the cliff side. And today climbers are back, scaling the ladders and exploring the bizarre labyrinth of tunnels in the complex. While [ more... ]