News & More
In the past few decades, rapid climate change has certainly revealed a lot about how our planet is being reshaped and modified. Global warming has been linked to wars, the death of the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, and it has even altered our farming techniques.
Conservation
A successful tourist season at our East Greenland Base Camp was over. With all packed up, we bid goodbye to our wonderful Greenland staff and were ready for the homebound flight after another magic summer season for us and our guests in the high Arctic. We had a surprise visit in the Kulusuk Airport Hotel.
News & More
Climate change. It’s been on my mind for almost 20 years now.
Videos
“July 2016 was the 379th consecutive month with temperatures at least nominally above the 20th-century average,” says the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. July 2016 was also the 40th July in a row of above average temperatures. Those statements should shock you because they’re undeniable facts.
Videos
Thanks to some newly discovered aerial photographs from the 1930s, we can now see the retreat of some Greenland glaciers through time. Watch!
Nature & Wildlife
Remember when you were young? Did you play outside? Did you explore? World Wildlife Fund and Natural Habitat Adventures have teamed up with Maser Films, Pongo Media and King Tide Motion Pictures to ask these and many other questions we tend to forget as time and life’s responsibilities loom over us.
Conservation
The image of a polar bear stranded on an ice floe. Herds of thousands of walruses hauled out on land, deprived of their sunning platforms of choice: sea ice. Videos from NASA simulating how carbon dioxide moves through the atmosphere and travels around the globe.
News & More
If you got the news that, best-case scenario, you only had 12 to 18 months to live, I’m guessing you might quit your job and spend your final days traveling, vacationing or generally having the time of your life.
News & More
In January 1925, the children of Nome, Alaska, were dying. They were suffering from diphtheria. The town’s only physician, Dr. Curtis Welch, feared the epidemic would spread throughout Nome’s population of 1,400.
News & More
Last night, Leonardo DiCaprio accepted his first Best Actor Oscar award. He used his moment at the podium to remind us about the planet’s most urgent threat: rapid climate change. His message was timely.
Conservation
Last night, I watched a movie titled Merchants of Doubt. In this 2014 film, director and producer Robert Kenner lets us in on a secret that’s hiding in plain sight: there is a small—but highly paid—group of charismatic, silver-tongued “pundits” who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities, even though they have few credentials.
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose this polar bear patiently waiting in the willows as it snows. Photographer Suzanne Emerson snapped this photo while viewing polar bears in Churchill with Nat Hab.
