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Do You Know How Hard You Work Out?

A new study says you don't

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OutsideOnline Duluth Minn. Minnesota Rudy Hummel slept outside 365 consecutive days sleep outdoors triangular tree platfrom treehouse night three hundred sixty five stars Best Towns finalist
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365 Nights Outside

Duluth Boy Scout raises $6,000

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Animals Feel Regret

When it comes to food choices

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New App Geotags Roadkill

Nail a deer? Get our your phone!

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World's Largest Artificial Reef Underway

Off Yucatan coast

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Apollo Mission Photos Surface

From treks across Hawaii's Big Island

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World's Highest Gondola Open

Commute to work at 13,615 feet

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OutsideOnline Twitter The White House @whitehouse #ActOnClimate climate change act 30-percent reduction carbon pollution power sector 2030 EPA Environmental Protection Agency now time
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EPA Proposes Coal-Fired Regulations

White House responds with #ActOnClimate

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OutsideOnline Virgin Galactic Richard Branson CEO clears launch cleared ground control FAA SuperDraco engine 500-million-dollar upgrade Jornada del Muerto desert basin New Mexico signed agreement space trip flight first SpaceShipTwo Spaceport America
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One Step Closer to Space Tourism

Official clearance given for space flights

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Piano-Playing Otters at National Zoo

For Smithsonian's #ZooEnrichment

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OutsideOnline first Everest summit reported since avalanche April 18 mid-April Jing Wang Nepal South-side expedition Alan Arnette Himalayan Times helicopter Sherpas rope Hillary Step flight fly 20 decent Base Camp Camp 2 Khumbu Icefall Chinese climber ascent reached peak 7 Summits both poles record
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Rogue Climber Summits Everest from South

Hops Khumbu Icefall in heli

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#GlobalSelfie Trend Visualized

36,422 photos span 3.2 gigapixels

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Top 10 New Species Announced

Selected from more than 18,000

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OutsideOnline PetMatch Superfish PetFinder connect look-alike dead dog deceased puppy pup miss your Rocky Shaquille Truffle match facial recognition technology Snapchat-y interface similarity distance users pet
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PetMatch App Finds Look-Alike Dogs

Also works on cats

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Byzantine iPad Unveiled

9th-century notebook and tool in one

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OutsideOnline Mount St. Helens eruption 1980 volcano erupts plane photograph unpublished The Oregonian Richard Bowen ash cloud blast radius
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Mount St. Helens Photos Surface

Father and daughter captured 1980 eruption

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Wyoming Rejects Science Standards

For oil, coal industry

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Aero Bikes Back on the Hour Track

After cycling rules on record

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OutsideOnline bounce runners Sierra Nevada mountain range Coastal mts peak bouncing seismic activity groundwater depletion millimeter rise meet runner levels drought
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Sierra Nevadas on the Rise

Peak activity correlates to seismic activity

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OutsideOnline New Hampshire farmer bulldogs two Black Bear one brawl backyard fight wanderer birdfeeder fled ran guess who snacker nature notorious snack-y bark dogs territory defend Chokey the bear
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Bulldogs Take on Black Bear

In backyard brawl

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OutsideOnline Snowbird Utah Cummings Cumming family sold Park City Mountain resort ski skier in air Salt Lake City Talisker Powdr corporations corp. owned dispute lawsuit ski basin
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Snowbird Sold to Owners of Park City

Planning improvements

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OutsideOnline Galapagos islands oil spill tanker freighter Jessica 2001 San Cristóbal 2014 Ecuador Ecuadorean threat direct rocks swing puncture fuel crude diesel cargo hole
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Freighter Runs Aground in Galapagos

No threat for now

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Books & Media

Flying Off Everest

When a Sherpa and a native Nepali paraglided off of Mount Everest in 2011, they flew into history. Now a new book chronicles their extraordinary journey.

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Putin-fied Plans for Lunar Base

In the year 2030

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Birds Can't Find Their Way

Because our devices make so much noise

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Sunken "Ship of Gold" Still Leaks

With gold, that is

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Sober Up for Cinco de Mayo

Alcohol and salt are health risk

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Solar Bikini Charges Smartphones

Men's version will keep beer cold

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Topless Woman Dances with 12,000 Bees

Not her first bee blouse

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Ozone Report Released Stateside

Officials rule around the globe, and it looks hazy

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Praying Mantis Tries 3-D Glasses

Unimpressed by virtual objects

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Human Cartilage Grown on a Chip

Might save your knees and fingers

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Green Chili Sriracha Released

We're stoked

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What Does the Whale Say?

Quack, quack, quack, quack

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Rescue Chopper Spots SOS

Picks up stranded snorkelers

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New York City Workday Starts Latest

Of all American cities

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Become a Superhero

And occupy Comic Con

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High Altitude Lowers Risk of Obesity

Time to move to Boulder

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"Outredgeous" Veggies Headed into Space

On SpaceX resupply mission

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"Artist" Behind Boston Bomber Anniversary Hoax

Avantgardster drops rice cooker filled with confetti

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Cow Fartpacks Are Here

Capture methane; help planet

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Valparaiso Still Ablaze

Wildfire spread from a forested ravine into the city

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Ikea Buys Massive Wind Farm

South of Chicago

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OutsideOnline endangered Southwest American hot climate change
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Thriving and Dying in a Hotter Southwest

Birds and reptiles feel the burn

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Revolutionary Fitness Tracker or Indiegogo Fraud?

This fitness tracker could change everything—as long as the company marketing it actually exists.

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Bee Shortage Threatens Crops

The buzz and a few billion dollars

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OutsideOnline black-bellied plover birds oil spill Coastal Bend Texas
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Birds Threatened by Coastal Bend Oil Spill

100,000 gallons of heavy fuel and two weeks later

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Space Craft to Collect Moon Dust

NASA investigating strange glow

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Geysers on Enceladus
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Saturn's Moon Shows Signs of Life

Massive ocean, geysers below the ice

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Buddha At Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom, Cambodia
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Tour the World's Largest Ancient City with Google

Angkor Wat now on Street View

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Skydivers Attempt World Record

All 222 of them

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