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Adventure Coming, I Can Feel It in My Bones
You’ve probably heard about people who “see” the color blue when they hear a certain note played on a piano, for instance, or experience a sweet “taste” in their mouths when they touch a peach.
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Conservation
Botswana to ban wildlife hunting
Botswana is once more taking a leading role among African nations in advancing wildlife conservation as it prepares to end game hunting in favor of safaris devoted purely to photography.
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Nature & Wildlife
Living with Predators
“Seven teens attacked by grizzly in Alaska’s Talkeetna Mountains,” reads a headline in a Sacramento news story, taken from the Anchorage Daily News on July 25, 2011.
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Videos
Video: Thank-You Note from a Whale
When going out into the Sea of Cortez, California, with the intended purpose of doing some whale watching, it’s probably not all that unusual to actually come across some whales. However, finding a dead humpback is rarely in the plan.
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Nature & Wildlife
Ten Interesting Facts about Gray Wolves
By Emily Booker, WWF Guest Blogger Gray wolves are considered to be elegant predators and highly social animals that form tight, nuclear packs. A symbol of the wilderness and the predecessors to our domesticated dogs, these majestic creatures are still plentiful in rural areas all over the world. 10.
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Conservation
Study: Polar Bear Cubs Drowning Due to Sea Ice Loss
Polar bears in peril have become an icon for the woes of a warming planet. The sea ice they rely upon to hunt seals is freezing later and breaking up earlier, while diminishing overall.
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News & More
Space Shuttle Grounded: Will America Lose Its Spirit for Adventure?
“STS-135: the Final Mission.” Sounds like the title of a new Star Trek film, doesn’t it? In reality, it’s the phrase denoting the end of our nation’s space shuttle program.
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News & More
Meet Rita Kinstler: Nat Hab Adventurer Extraordinaire
Rita Kinstler is 75, though she travels circles around most people a third of her age, including long-term backpacker-types. Rita logs 8 to 10 major trips a year, dropping in for a few weeks here and there to her home in Mansfield Center, Conn., in between global adventures.
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Conservation
Turtle Runways and Pronghorn Highways
You’d think it would take something very big or potentially catastrophic to stop an Airbus A380 or a Boeing 747 from taking off at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, the busiest in North America in terms of international traffic.
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Videos
Video: A Need for the Dark
We humans have long feared the dark. That’s where scary monsters hide and criminals lurk. So that’s why, for most of our history on the planet, we’ve been trying to dominate the night by filling it with light. In many cases, illuminating our nights has worked.
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Travel Tales
10 Things to Take On Your Africa Safari
By Nat Hab Editorial Director Wendy Redal Are you planning an African safari? You’ll no doubt be consulting detailed packing lists that advise you to bring various essentials such as binoculars, mosquito repellent with DEET, khaki-colored clothing to blend in with the bush and a headlamp for nighttime reading.
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News & More
Take a Hike; Get a Bigger Brain
You momentarily forget where you set down your keys—and you just happen to be over 50 years of age—and you can already hear in your mind the jokes that will ensue: you’re having a “senior moment,” you’ve got “old-timer’s” or “well, age happens.”