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Although oil drilling and fracking provide some of the energy that we all use, the practices are highly controversial for the toll they take on our environment. It gets especially knottier when we talk about our precious, hard-won public lands.
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A lot of times when working with nature, what you manage to get on film is a happy accident. So it was for Neels Castillon, just a few months ago.
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Talk about the delicate balance of nature! Sculptor Michael Grab creates his works of art by finding that perfect point of equilibrium between two rocks.
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With their fierce, intense eyes, deadly claws and hooked beaks, bald eagles have adorned flags and led armies into battle throughout the ages. The national emblem of the United States since 1782—and a spiritual symbol for Native Americans for far longer—the bald eagle is the very embodiment of our ideas about power, freedom and independence.
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On these dark, wintry nights, you may find yourself preferring the proverbial “not a creature was stirring,” but when you hear the cute “snoring” of this creature, you just might change your mind. The hummingbird in the video below is a female amethyst-throated sunangel, native to the Andes of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
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Photos of grizzly bears catching salmon over Brooks Falls in Alaska (such as the one above, which I captured on a trip to Alaska in 2006) have become iconic images for the state and for the still-wild areas of America in general.
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Although they resemble small bears, wolverines actually belong to the weasel family.
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When we read about a rhinoceros species that just went extinct in Vietnam, or the plight of polar bears and how we could lose them in 40 years, or the countless other news items about continuing habitat degradation and the loss of biodiversity on Earth, well, it tends to get a little depressing.
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Watch as a critically endangered black rhino is moved to a safer, more spacious location—farther away from poachers.
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If you’ve been on Facebook at all in the past two weeks, chances are you’ve seen one of the most remarkable nature phenomena ever to go viral on video.
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Throughout human history, coyotes have been known as Creators and Destroyers, Tricksters and clever Simpletons. They are paradoxes on four legs. Perhaps the reason we humans can’t seem to neatly categorize the coyote is because it is one of the most adaptable animals in the world.
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Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. And we humans have been borrowing behaviors from and re-creating the physical characteristics of animals to solve some of our thorniest problems since before recorded history. We know, for instance, that our earliest ancestors learned valuable hunting tips by imitating nonhuman predators.
