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10 Ways to Celebrate World Water Day
World Water Day is March 22! This year’s theme is Water for Peace. As articulated by the United Nations: When we cooperate on water, we create a positive ripple effect – fostering harmony, generating prosperity and building resilience to shared challenges.
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Recycling Clothes and Repurposing CO2
When you’re traveling and going on adventures in the outdoors, there’s nothing more important than having comfortable and durable clothes to wear. It can mean the difference between having a memorable time or a miserable one.
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Nat Hab Goes Green in the Great White North
Have you reduced, reused or recycled recently? If not, this is your reminder to go green in honor of Global Recycling Day! Global Recycling Day was created in 2018 to highlight the important role recycling plays in preserving natural resources and securing a sustainable future for our planet.
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Nat Hab’s Australia and New Zealand Adventure Director Runs Trips—and Races
Talk about a life of adventure. As a child, Nat Hab adventure director Emily Kleinburd immersed herself in wildlife encyclopedias, devoured nature documentaries, toured national parks and begged (her words) her parents to go birding.
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Nonprofit The WYldlife Fund Helps Secure Over $24 Million for Wyoming Wildlife Crossing
We’re overjoyed to share that The WYldlife Fund, a Nat Hab Philanthropy partner, recently spearheaded considerable efforts to fund the HWY189 South Kemmerer Wildlife Crossing Project in Wyoming. To say that they were successful is an understatement.
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15 New Species Found in Recently Discovered Deep-Sea Vents in The Galapagos
Fascinating news from the Enchanted Isles! Scientists recently discovered a high-temperature hydrothermal vent field of around 50-foot-tall hot chimneys christened “Tortugas.” They also found 15 never-before-seen species, including a “living fossil” mollusk known as a monoplacophoran and a nursery with eggs of Pacific white rays—the second documented in the world (the first being in Canada).
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Surprising Sharks and Shipwrecks Saving Seas
In the popular and now iconic 1975 movie Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg, a great white shark attacks swimmers during one summer in the fictional beach town of Amity Island, New York. Because of the film, many people came to fear great whites—with good reason.
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Renowned Whale Research Scientist Ari Friedlaender Joins Nat Hab Travelers in Antarctica
Seeing a whale in Antarctic waters is nothing short of extraordinary. Thousands of humpbacks, fins, orcas and minkes spend the continent’s summer months feeding in its frigid, nutrient-rich waters before the bulk of them migrate north.
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2023 Is Now Officially the Hottest Year Ever
As I write this, I have now been officially stuck in my house for 10 days. Here, in Oregon, we’ve been under an Arctic blast for more than a week, and the icy hills and roads where I live have kept us “highlanders” unable to leave our premises.
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There Are Only Two Northern White Rhinos Left—But a New Breakthrough Could Bring Them Back
Meet Najin and Fatu, the world’s last two northern white rhinos. This mother-and-daughter pair live together in Kenya’s renowned Ol Pejeta Conservancy, where they are staunchly guarded. The last remaining male northern white rhino, Sudan, died at the conservancy of age-related issued in 2018.
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2023 Records: CO2 Emissions, Temperatures and Optimism
Now that we’re just two days into January, it probably feels more natural to look back on the year past than to look forward into the 12 months yet to come. But, for a moment, I’m going to ask you to do both. Let’s go back six months to July 2023.