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Cod: Save the Species or Preserve East Coast Economies?
Warming ocean temperatures are diminishing the number of polar bears, causing a loss of Arctic sea ice and breaking up the East Antarctica ice sheet.
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Warming ocean temperatures are diminishing the number of polar bears, causing a loss of Arctic sea ice and breaking up the East Antarctica ice sheet.
Travel Tips
There is nothing quite like exploring the world’s largest and greatest rainforest than on a unique and intimate Amazon River cruise.
Nature & Wildlife
Costa Rica is literally rich. In wildlife. This tiny country has built up an incredible reputation as a sustainable destination founded on the idea that its natural resources are to be valued in theory and practice. By protecting these resources, Costa Rica’s people have also benefited.
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I think Britain’s Prince Charles may be on to something. A longtime environmentalist, the heir to the British throne stated on November 23, 2015—just a week before the climate change conference in Paris—that the world’s failure to tackle climate change is a root cause of Syria’s civil war.
Nature & Wildlife
Exploring one of the planet’s most unique–and imperiled–biodiversity hotspots with Nat Hab and WWF. Mandehandeha mahita raha. Those who travel see much. I was raised on stories of the geat red island. In the 1960s, my mother moved to Madagascar, and in 1972 my parents met in the city of the thousand–Antananarivo.
Conservation
I was pondering the cycle of life yesterday as I walked along a creek full of spawning salmon in Juneau, Alaska where I live. I’m somewhere in the middle of that cycle with young kids and aging parents serving as my bookends.
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Before the terrorist attacks that left more than 125 people dead and hundreds wounded in Paris on Friday, November 13, 2015, the city was set to host the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, starting on November 30, 2015.
Nature & Wildlife
One of the most well known and lovable of all creatures on Earth happens to also be one of the most modest, shy and endangered species in the world—China’s giant panda.
Nature & Wildlife
We didn’t think so. Together, WWF & Natural Habitat adventures have forged an innovative partnership to protect the future of nature, bringing countless people closer to nature.
Conservation
WWF’s Meg Symington on saving the world’s largest rain forest I was only 21 years old in 1982 when I traveled to Manu National Park in the Peruvian Amazon to do field research on spider monkeys. I ended every day in awe of the forest.
Conservation
Ursus maritimus (the polar bear) is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species—one step away from the list’s official Endangered designation. Make no doubt about it, Frosty the Snowman is melting, and along with him, so is the sea ice that the King of the Arctic depends on.
Travel Tales
The people of Namibia possess a hard-to-grasp reverence for their landscape. No matter how little rain falls on the southern African country, or how strongly an unforgiving sun bakes the earth, or how swirly dust devils get when they whip across dry river beds, Namibians still respect the natural assets that surround them.