Antarctica & Arctic
Video: Emperor Penguins’ Big Air Down South
The Earth’s poles have a special kind of pull on me—sometimes called the “ice blink”—and that’s why on this Christmas Eve, I’m thinking of them.
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Conservation
For Your Gifting: My Top 10 Nature-and-Travel Authors
While some might say that the true travel genre of books includes those “that record the experiences of an author touring a place,” I find it worthwhile to add another component into my description of that category: environmentalism.
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Travel Tales
Making Travelers: View-Masters, Slideshows and Mailed Boxes
When I was a kid, my mother signed me up for a monthly children’s travel club sponsored by the National Geographic Society. As a member of the club, every 30 days I received a small box in the mail.
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Videos
Video: The Universe Wishes You “A Merry Little Christmas”
On this Christmas morning, I hope you are happy, healthy and spending time with family and friends. During this holiday season, however, it’s the “happy” part of that wish that I found myself thinking about most, precipitated by the often-heard, classic holiday song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, which—some say—is a bit dark.
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Videos
Video: A Post-Holiday, Hot-Springs Retreat with Japan’s Snow Monkeys
The Christmas holiday is over—just barely. Feeling a little exhausted after all the preparations, family gatherings and parties? Then, a nice soak in a hot spring should be just the ticket for you. Of course, I can’t physically take you all to a spot with some natural, thermal waters.
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Videos
Video: Spend a Few Minutes of Peace in Grand Teton National Park
The end of 2016 marks the closing of the National Park Service’s centennial year. For the past 12 months, we Americans have been appreciating, celebrating and visiting all of our 413 national park units, large and small.
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Videos
Happy Holidays 2015: Whales under the Northern Lights
As we reflect back on 2015, we have to admit it’s been a tough year for the world. Biodiversity is being lost, droughts continue and wars go on. But there is also much to be thankful for, as photographer Harald Albrigtsen shows us in the short video below.
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Travel Tips
Four Natural Holidays for the Holidays
Spending time with family and friends is one of the highlights of any holiday, but who says that means staying local? We’ve rounded up four destinations you should visit during the most festive and fitting holiday seasons that we think match them perfectly.
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Conservation
Best Conservation Christmas Gift: a Federal Duck Stamp
If you’ve got a wildlife and nature enthusiast on your holiday shopping list—and I’m sure you do if you’re reading this article—I have the perfect gift idea for you. It isn’t expensive, it’s beautiful, it’s easy to purchase and send, and it quite probably helps conserve your best-loved wild place and/or favorite wildlife species.
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Travel Tales
The Natural Habitat of the Plastic Pink Flamingo
I thought of my father recently, as I was taking down our Christmas tree and wrapping up the decorations.