Tag: outdoors
National parks teach students about environmental issues in this course
Seth T. Kannarr, University of Tennessee
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation...
Here’s what happened when I taught a fly-fishing course in the...
Christopher Schaberg, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Uncommon Courses is an...
What social change movements can learn from fly fishing: The value...
Brett Crawford, Grand Valley State University ; Erica Coslor, The University of Melbourne, and Madeline Toubiana, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Infants need lots of active movement and play – and there...
Danae Dinkel, University of Nebraska Omaha
When people set personal fitness goals and establish their physical exercise routines, there’s...
Twitter posts show that people are profoundly sad – and are...
Joe Roman, University of Vermont and Taylor Ricketts, University of Vermont
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is the deepest and longest period of...
Summer visitors to American parks choose safety first over freedom to...
B. Derrick Taff, Pennsylvania State University
In a typical summer, millions of Americans head outdoors to national parks, hiking trails and rivers across the U.S....
If you’re not getting enough nature during the lockdown, try bringing...
Kevin Nute, University of Hawaii
Pandemics change everything, including the way we design buildings.
After the 1918 Spanish flu and the scourge of tuberculosis, there was...
What can you learn from studying an animal’s scat?
Verity Mathis, University of Florida
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EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
