This summer has been hot, but so far we have been spared mostly from the usual smokey season allowing most people to enjoy the outdoors. The people of Washington State enjoyed long camping trips on their favorite lake, day-long wakeboarding trips, weekend hikes in the mountains, or campfires...
Jeremy Dreyfuss
According to numbers reported by theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention,mosquitos have proven to be the deadliest among all animals in the world. Much of that is due to mosquito-borne illnesses. The CDC says an average of 2,400 people die every year in the U.S. just from the West...
True to its moniker, the tarantula hawk is a wasp with theremarkable habit of eating tarantulas, despite being dominated in size by the spider. To do this, they immobilize the tarantula by stinging them, dragging them away, and consuming them whole. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the tarantula hawk a...
Thistick-borne bacterial diseaseis not limited to the Rocky Mountains; it occurs in many states and most commonlyreportedin North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Symptoms include fever, body aches and a spotted rash.
The three teams of truckers leave Bolivia in their dust as they make tracks for Peru's deadly Andes Mountains passageways. Lisa Kelly finally hands the reins over to G.W. Boles, and he's ready to prove he's got what it takes on some of the worst roads on the planet. 8.9/10Rate ...
Cataclysm: The World’s Deadliest Single-Day Natural Disasters January 23, 1556 – Jiajing Great Earthquake – 830,000 dead “The Great Dying” “In the winter of 1556, an earthquake catastrophe occurred in the Shaanxi and Shanxi Provinces. …Various misfortunes took place. Mountains and rivers ...
Mount Huashan – the world’s most dangerous hike challenges even the most daring thrill-seekers to take on a death-defying and exhilarating adventure. It consists patches of treacherous stairs, steep mountains, rickety planks, and clumsy iron stairs that do their best to dampen the spirit. No...
The majority of Helene’s victims were far from the coast, caught off guard as the storm unleashed more than 20 inches of rain in the mountains that quickly turned streams and rivers into raging torrents. I study hurricane history as a geographer and climatologist in one of those ...
localannalsthat also tracked 26 earthquakes in the region. In those records, the earthquake is starkly different from others: they describe leveled mountains, floods, fires that burned for days and adrastically alteredlandscape. The annalsestimatedthat some counties lost about 60 percent of their ...