Nature & Wildlife
Northern Lights: Nature’s Winter Magic
Few natural wonders are as moving as an encounter with the mystical northern lights. One of the best places to see them is Churchill, Canada, now and in the weeks just ahead.
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Nature & Wildlife
Northern Lights: Nature’s Winter Magic
Few natural wonders are as moving as an encounter with the mystical northern lights. One of the best places to see them is Churchill, Canada, now and in the weeks just ahead.
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Nature & Wildlife
Churchill: Home of the Pizzly?
As the Arctic continues to warm, it comes as no surprise that cold-adapted species, such as polar bears, are moving north in an effort to survive, while those that favor more moderate temperatures are expanding into regions that have now become hospitable habitats for them.
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Conservation
Eating Goose Eggs and Other Culinary Adventures
The statistics regarding a worldwide climate trend toward global warming and the resultant loss of biodiversity are alarming—and attention getting, to say the least. Most of us have heard the often-quoted statement that the planet’s polar bears could be gone by the year 2050.
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Travel Tales
The Timing of Your Travels
It’s now the end of November, and soon we’ll be ushering in another new year. On December 31—as if everyone in the nation suddenly got a job at Houston’s Johnson Space Center—we’ll all begin counting backwards from 10.
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Nature & Wildlife
It's Almost Polar Bear Season!
Current reports indicate that 2010 is going to be a great polar bear season in Churchill! Lots of bears already moving toward the shore of Hudson Bay to anticipate freeze-up.
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Nature & Wildlife
Let a baby polar bear capture your heart!
I may be one of the few people on the planet – with access to television, at any rate – who had never seen footage of the baby polar bear orphan Knut until a few days ago.
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Conservation
Homage to a Small Eco-Warrior: the Mosquito
“Unsung heroes of the environment.” The “green Nobel Prize.” Eco-Ocean Awards, ecoart competitions and ecoschool certifications.
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Travel Tips
What are YOUR Top Ten Travel Moments?
I’m usually too busy to watch television, so it’s perhaps not surprising I didn’t know who Samantha Brown was, when a friend told me she had her dream job.
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Nature & Wildlife
Your Travels, Years Later
I know this is going to sound weird, but a month ago I got up at 3:00 a.m. to drive almost 150 miles north of here. I did this just for the opportunity to sit in silence in a plywood box—no bigger than four feet by five feet—for three hours on a below-freezing April morning.
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Travel Tales
Self-Portraits While Traveling Solo
When I sign up for group tours, more often than not I enroll as a single traveler.
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News & More
Nature Makes Us Good-Natured People
You’ve probably read oodles of stories, articles and personal anecdotes on the transformative powers of seeing Churchill’s polar bears. And you’ve most likely read a lot of them here, on Natural Habitat Adventures’ website and in its blog columns.