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Conservation
In 1951, Kirk Douglas starred in a B movie titled The Big Carnival (originally released as Ace in the Hole). I saw it as a kid, many years later, when the trend was to play old movies on TV on Saturday afternoons.
Videos
With Arctic sea ice at the third lowest level in recorded history, it’s not only polar bears that are facing climate change challenges. Tens of thousands of walrus are coming ashore in northwest Alaska, which is unusual behavior. The situation could prove dangerous, since walrus are easily startled and might stampede, trampling their young.
Conservation
Fantastic news out of India: Home to half the world’s wild tigers, India has announced that its tiger population has increased to 1,706 from 1,411 since the last tiger census in 2007.
Travel Tips
I still vividly recall the dream, even though I couldn’t have been more than six or seven years old when I had it. I was flying, low—without a plane, mind you—over Alaska. I soared above waving fields of purple flowers and gurgling, ribbon-like, blue rivers.
Travel Tales
While the consequences of global warming are posing problems for the health and future of the planet’s ecosystems, melting ice has had the effect of opening up new parts of the Arctic for adventure travel, like sea kayaking in Greenland’s remote Kangerdlussuaq fjords.
Nature & Wildlife
One of the many joys of spring that I look forward to is the return of migratory birds to our yard.
Nature & Wildlife
Like all traipsers through woods and walkers of rivers, I have a few, favorite “secret places.” I could go on and on about their beauty, about what makes them so different from any other location on Earth, about the feelings they elicit from deep down in my core.
Videos
When National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen jumped in the waters off Antarctica to photograph a leopard seal, he never expected her to play the perfect host—and offer him a snack. The huge seal began to bring him food: live penguins. When he didn’t partake, she brought him different fare—weak and dead ones.
Conservation
Japan is heavy on all our minds in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami that has devastated the country’s northeast region.
Conservation
Japan is heavy on all our minds in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami that has devastated the country’s northeast region.
News & More
When Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, stepped into her twin-engine plane in Miami on June 1, 1937, they were embarking on an adventure of a grand sort. The two hoped to fly around the world, following the Equator.
Conservation
Did you know the tiger’s mystical golden eyes are a trait that only adults possess? Babies are born with blue eyes, which open when they are about 10 days old. Want more tiger trivia? Check out this list I found with 50 Fun Facts About Tigers.
