Michael Behar is a freelance writer based in Boulder, Colorado.

Michael has been covering adventure travel, the environment, and innovations in science for more than a decade. Most recently he was an articles editor for National Geographic magazine. He was also a senior editor at Wired magazine from 1995 - 2000.

Michael has reported on wildfire fighting, extreme kiteboarding, uncontacted jungle tribes, big weather, warrior robots, mountain climbing in Central America, science at the South Pole, satellite gorilla tracking in Rwanda, remote private islands, pirate treasure hunting, and secured an exclusive interview with an electrical engineer about to implant a microchip in his forearm. His articles have appeared in several publications including Outside, Wired, Men's Journal, Popular Science, The Economist, National Geographic Adventure, Discover, and Smithsonian.

Born in Seattle, Michael has lived in San Francisco, Santa Fe, Chicago, London, and visited more than 47 countries. In 2001, as part of a 14-month globetrot, Michael traversed the Gobi in a rusty Russian jeep and journeyed up Laos's tumultuous Nam Tha River aboard a hand-carved longboat.

His latest assignments have taken Michael to Peru, New Zealand, New Guinea, Costa Rica, Bali, and the Seychelles. In New Guinea, he accompanied a group of wealthy tourists into the jungle in search of uncontacted native tribes. The New Guinea article—first published in Outside magazine and later reprinted in the London Observer—attracted international media attention. National Public Radio, Boston's WBUR, and Dublin's NewsTalk 106 interviewed Michael on-air about the jungle trek.

He is a member of the Explorers Club and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and his writing has been featured in the Best American Travel Writing anthology.