At the Appalachian Mountain Club, we’re proud to put the “NGO” (non-governmental organization, that is) in “Bingo!” Each spring our team of researchers count on the contributions of community scientists like you to better understand…
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The Right Time to Bail: Outdoor Safety Tips Every Hiker Should Know
On a freezing night in early May, a search and rescue crew set off into a squall on a high-stakes mission: a 63-year-old man had vanished somewhere near Franconia Ridge. He’d been missing for three...
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March 5, 2024 If you’ve been following along with the wacky winter weather this year, you may have stumbled across the term “El Niño.” You know it plays a role in the weather. But what…
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February 2, 2024 We know winter is changing. We can see it in the change in snow, the warm rains, and the above-freezing temperatures. Much of the conversation on changing winters has focused on New…
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Whether it’s holidays, birthdays, or other special events, gathering and spending time with loved ones is always a joyous occasion. But it can often feel like our celebrations lend themselves to waste: disposable plates and…
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A river streaming with silvery scales. Tens of thousands of determined fish, swimming upstream and leaping over barriers to spawn. Water teeming with life. This sight was once common from the Gulf of Maine to…
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Deep snows and freezing temperatures are two things that scream “winter” in the Northeast and New England. It’s not unusual to be scraping ice off cars for six months out of the year, and some…
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It’s a warm, sunny late September day. The leaves on the trees are golden yellow, with splashes of red and orange. Further down a gravel road, Steve Tatko, AMC’s Vice President of Conservation Research and…
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Summertime means big days on the trail and refreshing ones on the water. But at AMC, it wasn’t just people who were soaking up the sun. Solar panels have been popping up at AMC properties…
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I’m standing on a 2,000-yard stretch of churned-up earth, right off the road. Sunlight filters down through the trees with just-starting-to-change color leaves, and busily working people in hard hats surround me, as well as…
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