Conservation
We Can Have Both: Clean Energy and Conservation Programs
Our planet’s climate is changing before our eyes. Weather events have gotten more extreme, and we’re in the midst of a sixth mass extinction.
Good Nature Travel Blog
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Nature & Wildlife
“New” Greenland Polar Bears Found
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown, isolated population of polar bears living in Southeast Greenland that has found a unique way to survive.
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Nature & Wildlife
Who’s Smarter: Your Domesticated Dog or a Wild Gray Wolf?
Greyhounds have been a part of my life for more than two decades. In fact, in 2019, when my husband and I got the call inviting us to visit the local kennel to adopt what would be our 10th greyhound over a span of 26 years, we found our new “fur baby” within 30 minutes.
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Canada & the North
Brown Bears and Polar Bears and Their Tangled Histories
A “time line” of nearly any animal’s existence is an almost-oxymoron, if you ask me. Time lines can make things seem as if they progressed in a linear manner. But life is a lot messier than that. Sometimes things go forward, then back again, and they can even do loop the loops and veer sideways.
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Nature & Wildlife
A Story of Blue Whales and a “Book” of Baleen
A pod of orcas grabbed the headlines in late March 2019. Researchers performing their annual dolphin and whale surveys off the southwestern coast of Australia stumbled across an orca attack on a healthy, adult blue whale. They recorded the event, which had never been documented before.
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Conservation
Where It Counts: Enumerating Elephants and Listing Lions
To decide whether an animal population is threatened or even on the brink of extinction, you need to know, at least approximately, how many individuals are left and if those numbers are increasing or decreasing. In other words, you can’t protect wildlife if you can’t monitor it.
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Nature & Wildlife
Fearless Animals Will Fare Better in the Face of Climate Change
Without a doubt, we humans are altering the natural environment. Because of our activities, we are now experiencing melting glaciers; rising sea levels; warming oceans; and more frequent and intense droughts, heat waves and storms—all the result of human-caused climate change. These effects wreak havoc on people’s communities and livelihoods.
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News & More
World Environment Day 2022: Defeating Deforestation
“Only one Earth. In the universe are billions of galaxies, in our galaxy are billions of planets, but there is #OnlyOneEarth. Let’s take care of it.” That’s the thought behind this year’s World Environment Day, June 5, 2022.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Highs of Hiking through a Burned Forest
Our relationship with forest fires is complicated. Beginning in 1947, one of the world’s most recognizable characters and one of our nation’s most beloved spokespeople, Smokey Bear, told us that “only you can prevent forest fires.” (That slogan was changed to “Only you can prevent wildfires” in 2001.)
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Nature & Wildlife
Earth Day 2022: A Golden Bear and Hundreds of Mammals Waiting to Be Discovered
Invest in Our Planet. That’s the theme for Earth Day 2022, according to EARTHDAY.ORG. It advocates for “creating a 21st century economy that brings back the healing and health of our planet, protects all of our species—including our own—and provides opportunities for everyone on the planet.”
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Nature & Wildlife
Can Your Children Inherit Your Healthy Love of Nature? Yup.
My mother grew up in a rural area in Wisconsin. On our walks when I was young—whether it was near her childhood home or where we then lived in the city—she would tell me the common names of all the birds and flowers that we saw. Those memories still impress me to this day.
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Latin America
Found: Fishing Jaguars in Brazil’s Phenomenal Pantanal
At more than 81,000 square miles—greater than 10 times the size of Florida’s Everglades—the Pantanal, located mostly in Brazil, is the largest tropical wetland and one of the most pristine in the world. This seasonally flooded plain is fed by tributaries of the Paraguay River and is one of the planet’s most productive habitats.