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Iman Vellani Details Her X-Men Comics Writing Process

The multitalented star of The Marvels discusses writing Ms. Marvel for Marvel Comics, with a little help from history and... Billy Joel?

The Country’s Most Endangered River Is Hitting New Lows

The Colorado River is #1 of the nation's top 10 endangered rivers as climate change exacerbates its overburdening.

Keep Your Holidays Bright With Huge Savings on EcoFlow’s Portable Power Stations

No need for miracles—EcoFlow will keep you powered on the darkest nights.

M. Night Shyamalan’s Old Is One of the Most Visceral, Intense Movies in Years

Director M. Night Shyamalan isn't just going for surprises this time, he's trying to punish you, and we loved it.

There’s Absolutely Nothing Wrong With Saving the World

There’s one phrase I’ve been using a lot, as I’ve been promoting my young adult space-opera Victories Greater Than Death: “Save all the worlds.” Because I love the idea of a group of kids who are mostly LGBTQIA+ and come from cultures all over the world get to be the ones to help “save all…

Watch a River Catch on Fire Because of Fracking

Mother Nature probably never wanted to wax a song about fire and water but when fracking gets involved, all sorts of wild stuff starts happening. This footage apparently shows a gas leak in a river near a fracking site in Australia. There’s so much gas bubbling up that it easily catches on fire and sustains…

A Cool View of a Ship Going Through a City on the River

Here we have the Dorothy Ann/Pathfinder tug and barge vessel cruising right through Cleveland, Ohio on the Cuyahoga River. It’s a really cool view of the ride because you see the long ship navigate the narrow channels next to the city. I mean, at some point the width of the river is no wider than…

I Paddled All 2,552 Miles Of The Mississippi River

Kayaking the entire 2,552-mile length of the Mississippi River has been a challenge. It would be for anyone, but for novice paddlers like me and the now heavily-bearded boyfriend, it amounted to the biggest challenge we’ve ever faced. Here’s why. Out of the nearly two-and-a-half months we spent on the river, it was the last…

Rally drivers escape from flooding car in claustrophobic video 

Driver Ott Tanak and his co-pilot Raigo Molder crashed on a river during the Mexico leg of the FIA World Rally Championship. Fortunately, they could escape before the water flooded the car completely. This insane video, shot from a camera place in the back seat, depicts pretty graphically one of my worst nightmares. SPLOID is…

One Man’s Quest To Surf Berlin

Berlin lies hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean. But, that didn’t stop one determined man from discovering a rare local break, then teaching himself to surf it. This is his story. Ira Mowen is an American artist living in the German city. He’s creating a documentary film about his experience finding and eventually surfing…

See an Entire Muddy River Bed Transplanted Inside an Art Museum

If you’ve ever been to the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, you know it’s one of the most dramatic museum locations around: Perched on a rocky cliff above Øresund, looking out over the ocean, it’s easy to find yourself staring out to sea instead of at the art. Now, Olafur Eliasson has brought the landscape inside…

River in China mysteriously turns blood-red overnight

The residents of Wenzhou, China, woke up last Thursday to discover that the inner city river had turned blood-red. Everyone is puzzled, as this has never happened before and nobody knows the cause yet. China Radio International reports: Inspectors from the Wenzhou Environmental Protection Bureau are taking samples and analyzing the cause of the incident.…

​Rafting America’s Most Difficult River

With 15 class V rapids in under 9 miles, Cherry Creek and the Upper Tuolumne River are considered the most technically challenging rafting river in the country. Last weekend, we ran it. Here’s how you can too. Video: Chris Brinlee Jr. I haven’t been rafting in years. So, when a random email showed up inviting…

Win A Whitewater Rafting Trip In California For You And Your Friends

We’re giving away an All-Outdoors group whitewater rafting trip on a river of your choice in California. Choose the most challenging river in America — Cherry Creek — or something a little more relaxing, it’s up to you. The one-day trip can be on the South or Middle Forks of the American River, the Tuolumne…

Piano mysteriously washes ashore under NYC’s Brooklyn Bridge

A baby grand piano has mysteriously appeared under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, right on the Manhattan side of the East River. Everyone in the city is speculating about its origin: Some people think it may be a viral marketing action, others think it may be an art project, but nobody really knows why…

New York’s ice-choked East River—seen from Pier 1 Playground in Brooklyn—is evidence of the extraordinary cold temperatures gripping much of the central and eastern United States this week. Video of the scene shows the frigid water moving at a surreal and unexpected speed.

Another extreme winter image: The Missouri River, frozen

Today, NASA’s Earth Observatory brings us this beautiful image of the Missouri River taken from the International Space Station. Its one of its bends occupied by “Lake Sharpe, an approximately 130 kilometer (80 mile) long reservoir formed behind the Big Bend Dam.”

Watch a car impossibly zipline across a river

Where we’re going, we don’t need roads… we need a zipline, thought these intrepid Russians. Because, in order to cross a violent river without a bridge nearby, crazy Russians thought it would be smart to strap their car to a zipline and let it fly by to the other side. I guess. I don’t know…

Amazon vs. Amazon: Should the .Amazon Domain Belong to Bezos or the River?

Amazon is busy trying to gobble up all kinds of top-level domains—.book, .read, you name it—but it also has its eye on .amazon, too. Turns out that the Brazilian and Peruvian governments have something to say about that though, and would rather snag it for the famous river. The Guardian reports that the governments have…

This Is What It’s Like to Really Live on the Edge

The ordered lines of Jerome, Idaho (population: 10,000) start to disintegrate as you approach those parts of town that teeter on the edge of the Snake river canyon. Here the homes are “unregulated and unzoned”, says photographer Michael Light, who took this shot from his own light aircraft. There seems to be a tension between…