Alaska
Sharing Salmon: Bears and People
Fat Bear Week recently announced the 2022 champion: 747 (aka “Bear Force One”).
Good Nature Travel Blog
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African Safaris
Lion Teeth Tell Tales
Staggering natural wonders—such as Victoria Falls, considered to be the world’s biggest curtain of falling water (not because of a singular dimension, such as height or width, but because of all dimensions taken into account, including flow rate)—and a massive network of remote national parks where you can encounter most of Africa’s iconic wildlife…
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News & More
Whale Sharks Top Kodiak Bears for World’s Largest Omnivore
Whale sharks are the biggest fish and shark in the world. Adults can weigh 41,000 pounds and average about 40 feet long, but they may grow as large as 65 feet. According to World Wildlife Fund (WWF), these gentle giants roam all the planet’s tropical oceans, generally alone.
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Conservation
Yellowstone Heats Up; Wolves Could Curb the Warming
Yellowstone National Park is famous for its beautiful but harsh winters. Blanketed in snow, it exudes an almost mythical aura—even in the season’s common subzero temperatures there.
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Conservation
Monarch Butterflies: Are They Endangered or Stable?
Every summer has its own vibe. For example, you might remember your 10th as the one when you learned to swim at the beach, or your 25th as the time when you took the perfect road trip.
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Conservation
Black Rhinos and White Rhinos: Counts, COVID and Conservation
As caregivers, parents and teachers of children, we try to encourage and respect every youngster’s individuality. We tell them that they are each unique and that every one of them has something separate to give, something different to learn and something distinct to create.
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Asia & The Pacific
Animals Are Changing Shape to Keep Cool as the Planet Warms
The planet we call home is warming faster than at any point in recorded history. As greenhouse gas emissions blanket our Earth, they trap the sun’s heat.
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Conservation
Backing Biodiversity Will Lessen the Climate Crisis
The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity loss caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today, a sixth mass extinction crisis is underway, this time almost entirely caused by human activities. In fact, one recent survey revealed that more species are threatened with extinction than we previously thought.
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Conservation
Dolphin Poop Helps Save Coral Reefs
It’s not exactly a secret that the dolphin is one of the most intelligent animals on Earth.
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News & More
Could Greenland’s Past Be the Amazon’s Future?
One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon them in the early 15th century? The consensus view has long been that colder temperatures, associated with the Little Ice Age, helped make the colonies unsustainable.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Pandemic–Wildlife–Climate Change Connection
What sparked the COVID-19 pandemic remains a mystery, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. Several hypotheses exist, but each lacks sufficient evidence to explain the cause of the crisis. Many scientists believe that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, spread from animals to humans—known as zoonotic transmission—in late 2019.
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Asia & The Pacific
Studies of Extinct Ibex Could Save Today’s Tigers
The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) officially became extinct in January 2000, when a falling tree landed on Celia, the world’s last wild Pyrenean ibex. Unfortunately, what led up to that unhappy incident was a sad history for this wild mountain goat. Several species of ibex once lived across Africa, Asia and Europe.