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Emoji: the New Language of Adventure and Travel Writing?
In case you can’t read the sentence in the image above, I’ll translate it for you: “I love the snows of Antarctica and the glaciers of Greenland. And so, my adventures in ice began.”
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106-Year-Old Fruitcake Found in Antarctica
For a food that has been around at least since the Middle Ages, fruitcakes certainly have their share of detractors. The long list of jokes about fruitcakes—a rich dessert containing dried or candied fruits, nuts
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Creating a New National Park: Possible or Pipe Dream?
Today, in the current political climate, with national parks falling into disrepair because of budget cuts and parks and monuments threatened with downsizing, I was astonished to learn about a newly proposed national park.
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Keeping It Local: Nat Hab Fallfest 2017
On the last weekend of September, the cottonwoods along Colorado’s Arkansas River were in full fall glory, burnished gold against the cobalt blue sky and snow-dusted peaks of the Collegiate Range. It was the
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The Disappearing Glaciers of Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park is smack-dab in the center of the breathtaking Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, which spans 10 million acres on either side of the U.S.-Canada border. Alpine meadows, grizzly bears, mountain goats, wildflowers
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Introducing Nat Hab & WWF’s 2018 Catalog of the World’s Greatest Nature Journeys
Fresh Off the Press! I returned to beloved Vancouver, British Columbia, last month for the printing of the 2018 Catalog of World’s Greatest Nature Journeys for Natural Habitat Adventures and World Wildlife Fund. This
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99 Percent of Us Want Our National Parks and Monuments Protected, but Downsizing Looms
In quiet places, we yearn for absolution. But peace swiftly flees. It’s not surprising that 99.2 percent of us want our national parks and monuments to continue to stand—or even grow—in their current sizes
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#NatHabEclipse Photo Roundup
Nat Hab staff had a stellar time watching the solar eclipse at our Boulder, Colorado headquarters. The fun continued as your photo submissions to the #NatHabEclipse hashtag contest rolled in! Big thanks to all who
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