News & More
By Becky Pahl, NHA Adventure Prep Specialist Meet Elsa Bailey. Elsa is en route to Churchill right now to realize a lifelong dream of seeing polar bears in the wild, as Nat Hab’s 2013 Polar Bear season kicks off today.
Conservation
I’ve always loved ice. Growing up in Wisconsin, my winters were filled with it. I could skate on it, watch it paint the trees with a crystalline, Doctor Zhivago-like romance and break off icicles for an afternoon treat. Back then, I never considered it controversial. It was just a fact of winter.
Conservation
Alaskan glaciers, icebergs in Antarctica, the chilling Beaufort Sea – these polar wonderlands are the worldwide offices of Paul Nicklen, acclaimed wildlife photographer for National Geographic. Spirit bears, leopard seals, polar bears, penguins – these are his co-workers.
Nature & Wildlife
When we saw the winning artwork from this year’s Endangered Species Day Youth Art Contest, it was so darn impressive we had to share it with you.
Nature & Wildlife
Moms love us unconditionally, they are the glue of our families, and they work extremely hard usually receiving little praise in return. This is every bit as true in the animal kingdom as well.
Nature & Wildlife
By Ben Bressler NHA Founder & Director I hate to focus on bad news when there are so many great strides being made in conservation worldwide, but I thought you would be interested in these two breaking news stories: sadly, they are both very unfortunate for polar bears, an iconic species that you and…
Conservation
Tomorrow, February 27, is International Polar Bear Day. Many environmental organizations are asking that you take some kind of action to show your concern for our rapidly warming planet and the fate of climate change’s poster child: the polar bear. Requests range from taking part in a thermostat challenge to symbolically “adopting” a polar bear.
Travel Tales
The lands that we come from are certainly a big part of who we are. When people ask at first meeting, “Where are you from?,” they’re trying to get a sense of who you are in a shorthand way—what influences have shaped your thinking and which issues are important to you.
Travel Tips
Interstate rest stops are some of my favorite places when it comes to getting ideas for new adventures. Inside their doors are racks filled with printed brochures and colorful maps that promise excitement just down the road.
Nature & Wildlife
Hear the phrase “global warming,” and you immediately picture your hometown with a hotter climate. You imagine a line of more southerly plants marching northward to where you live.
News & More
Antibacterial soaps, alcohol wipes and bleach in our everyday cleaning products have made us focused on eliminating all the germs that we possibly can from our lives. And when it comes to our children, it seems that focus turns into an obsession. It’s here, though, where we soon become at odds with nature.
Nature & Wildlife
Scientists—and those of us who are polar bear enthusiasts—have long thought that polar bears started off as brown bears about 150,000 years ago, adapting to their cold environment by developing smaller ears, thicker fur and teeth ideally shaped to tear into seal flesh.
