Conservation
We Need More Snow Days
I think part of the reason that I love snow and ice is because I think winter is an endangered species. Have you ever chosen to travel to a particular place because you miss the colder winters of the past?
Good Nature Travel Blog
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Conservation
Antarctica's Wildlife Needs Our Help!
Did you know that Antarctica is home to more than 10,000 species of penguins, whales, and seals – just to name a few – that are found nowhere else on earth? Unfortunately, Antarctica’s wildlife is facing immense pressure from commercial fishing and climate change.
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Nature Photography
A Shifting Landscape: Images of Greenland’s Ice
With hundreds of staggeringly beautiful, ice-choked fjords, snowcapped summits, rushing waterfalls and flowing glaciers, Greenland is a paradise for cold-place fans, such as myself. And, if you seek remote and unpopulated corners, Greenland satisfies on that count, too.
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Conservation
Arctic Sea Ice Declines to Its Sixth-Lowest Extent on Record, Yet Some Still Repudiate the Loss
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.
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Canada & the North
Changing Glaciers and Shifting Attitudes
Giant-sized, creaky and cold, glaciers have always intrigued me. Ancient beings, they measure their time in the thousands of years, in a way that we humans have little experience understanding. That’s why, wherever I travel, if there’s a glacier nearby, I rush to see it.
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Alaska
Alaska Residents Face Sudden Flood Surges at Mendenhall Glacier
For the past three years, residents of Juneau, Alaska have been dealing with a new problem of glacial proportions – their treasured Mendenhall Glacier, 14 miles north of downtown Juneau, has exhibited sudden, torrential flood bursts during the summer.
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Videos
Beat the Heat: Five Minutes on an Antarctica Icebreaker
I didn’t need the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to jump-start my dreams of Antarctica ice.
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News & More
An Iceberg Larger than Chicago is Born in Antarctica
Breaking news in Antarctica this week: the 2-year-old crack in Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier (nicknamed PIG) has finally given out. The PIG calved a new iceberg larger than the city of Chicago in the Amundsen Sea. The iceberg measures 278 square miles, which is 8 times the size of the island of Manhattan.
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Conservation
New Study Shows an Ice-Free Arctic Soon, But We Still Debate Whether Climate Change Models Can Be Trusted
The Arctic Ocean could be free of summer sea ice as soon as sometime in this decade, and it’s extremely likely by 2050, according to a new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That’s much sooner than the previously projected time frame of after mid century.
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Conservation
Reviving Extinct Animals: a Tool for Fighting Global Warming?
When National Geographic magazine came out with their cover story on de-extinction in April 2013, it set off quite a controversy. Now that we are on the scientific brink of being able to bring back long-gone species, proponents and critics are hotly debating whether we should.
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Nature & Wildlife
Breaking News: Bad Week for Polar Bears
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…
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Conservation
Amazon Trees: Carbon Holders or Releasers?
We humans have a long history of looking to trees for sustenance. For thousands of years, our forests have supplied our food, fuel and shelter. While we still count on them today to provide those necessities to some extent, we additionally charge them with the task of mitigating the effects of our carbon-spewing, combustion-engine civilization.