Happy Outdoors

The outdoors as a place of skill, discovery, and good news. Happy Outdoors covers conservation wins, outdoor adventure, wildlife, and the people and places making the natural world a little better.

Because the world has enough bad news
GREEN DAY HDTV: Green Day and Billie Eilish Took the Stage Together at FireAid to Tell Los Angeles: 'We Got You Back'

August 4, 2026

Green Day and Billie Eilish shared the stage at FireAid's benefit concert in Los Angeles,

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: Sounders the Dock Diving Dog Just Tied His Own 36-Foot World Record at the National Championship Finals

August 4, 2026

At Purina Farms, Sounders the dock diving dog won his fifth national championship and tied

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Associated Press: The World's Only Surfing Miniature Pinscher Just Took Third Place in California

August 4, 2026

A miniature pinscher just four months old competed at the World Dog Surfing Championship in

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Animal Planet: Pug Pups, Baboons, and Rebel Samoyed Dads Star in Animal Planet's Most Charming Family Stories

August 4, 2026

A nine-week-old pug named Ivan gets stuck in an agility tunnel while his siblings offer

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Animal Planet: Pete Nelson Built Shaquille O'Neal a Treehouse Speakeasy and Shaq Called It Better Than His $2 Million House

August 4, 2026

Pete Nelson built Shaquille O'Neal a mahogany-doored speakeasy treehouse complete with stamped tin ceilings and

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MOLLY DIXON: What Actually Happens in the Dead Centre of Australia (Gorges, Campfires, and Zero Crowds)

August 4, 2026

Molly Dixon drove 150 km west of Alice Springs into a landscape most Australians never

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MOLLY DIXON: Molly Dixon Spent 150 Days Alone in Tasmania and Says Even That Was Not Enough

August 4, 2026

Molly Dixon loaded her vehicle onto the Spirit of Tasmania, paid around $2,000 return for

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MOLLY DIXON: Molly Dixon Drove 25 Hours Alone Through the Australian Outback to Answer One Question

August 4, 2026

Molly Dixon spent 3.5 years living alone in her vehicle across Australia, driving more than

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We Love Animals: Girl Paddles Out to Save a Drowning Raccoon in the Middle of a Lake

August 4, 2026

Kylie was already in the water when someone spotted a raccoon going under far from

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Quantum Makers: One Man Spent a Year Building a Floating Self-Sustaining Village on a Remote Vietnamese Lake

August 4, 2026

One man spent twelve months in the rainy forests of Vietnam building a floating bamboo

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Bob Ross: Bob Ross Teaches the Grandeur of Summer in This One-Hour Studio Lesson

August 4, 2026

Bob Ross reserved this summer landscape exclusively for a private one-hour instructional lesson, walking through

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Bob Ross: Bob Ross Painted 10 Waterfall Scenes and Every One Starts With a Black Canvas

August 4, 2026

Bob Ross returned to the waterfall subject across ten Joy of Painting episodes, each time

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