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Churchill Polar Bears
The Arctic is home to a wide array of winter wildlife. The hides of Arctic foxes and snowshoe hares blend into glittering frost as snowy owls swoop overhead, feathers aglow in the light of a silvery moon.
Churchill Polar Bears
Each autumn, polar bears congregate along Hudson Bay in anticipation of their annual seal hunt.
Asia & The Pacific
The Khata Corridor, a critical 15-mile wildlife passage along the shared border of Nepal’s Bardia National Park and India’s Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, is a beacon of hope for tiger conservation in South Asia.
Asia & The Pacific
“Looking deeply into your tea, you see that you are drinking fragrant plants that are the gift of Mother Earth. You see the labor of the tea pickers; you see the luscious tea fields and plantations in Sri Lanka, China, and Vietnam. You know that you are drinking a cloud; you are drinking the rain.
Asia & The Pacific
Many adventurers are drawn to the Himalayas of northern India either for the challenging mountain climbing or for the rich Tibetan Buddhist culture. But among sheer cliffs, snowfields and whitewashed monasteries flying their primary-colored prayer flags live some of the most elusive, tough and fascinating creatures on Earth.
Nature & Wildlife
Nearly two billion years of the Earth’s history are represented in the landscape of the American Southwest. Geologic forces created some of the most archetypal and diverse natural wonders, such as the mile-deep, 277-mile-long Grand Canyon, the bulging hoodoo spires of Bryce Canyon National Park and the elegant slot canyons of Zion National Park.
Nature & Wildlife
Natural lights in nature come in two familiar forms: bioluminescence and fluorescence. They differ primarily by their light source: bioluminescence is a chemical reaction within an organism that creates its own light, while fluorescence is a physical process where an organism or object absorbs external light and reemits it.
Asia & The Pacific
“Love at first sight” is how conservationist Helen Freeman described meeting a pair of Earth’s rarest creatures one day in 1972. Nicholas and Alexandra had made the long journey from Russia—then known as the Soviet Union—to be raised and studied at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington.
Asia & The Pacific
In the autumn of 1973, wilderness writer and naturalist Peter Matthiessen joined preeminent field biologist George Schaller high in Nepal’s Himalayan Mountains on a journey that would soon become legendary.
Conservation
The Colorado River carves its way through a mile-deep chasm in northwestern Arizona. Its erosive action has exposed 40 different sedimentary layers, including rocks that are a mind-bending 1.8 billion years old. This is the Grand Canyon.
Galapagos Islands
If you’re a lover of books (or a bibliophile) like me, you’ll appreciate Charles Darwin, the biologist famous for his Theory of Evolution that was formulated while visiting the Galapagos Islands. Arguably the most influential man of science in history, Darwin accumulated a vast personal library throughout his working life.
Conservation
Do you crave a cup of coffee in the morning like I do? We’re not alone. Globally, people drink more than 2.2 billion cups daily. And someone has to grow all that joe: more than 100 million farmers worldwide produce coffee.
