News & More
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.
Good Nature Travel Blog
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News & More
As Earth’s Superpredators, Can We Change How We Use Wildlife?
Would you mind living next door to a top predator? It’s a question I’ve asked you before. It seems that when it comes to bears, lions or wolves, we humans, as a whole, can’t get rid of our four-footed, predatory neighbors fast enough.
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Travel Tales
Photo Journal: the Tall Trees of Redwood National Park
Some have always been drawn to the mountains, while others are called to ocean shores. But I constantly feel the pull of forests (I’ve even written a book about them). My particular predilection causes me some mild embarrassment and social discomfort, because what could be more cliché for a baby boomer than being a “tree-hugger”?
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Videos
Video: Water’s Staying Power
Water has been in the news this week: especially regarding how we’ll deal with insufficient quantities of it where we need it most—water is heavy and costly to transport—in a world that continues to rapidly warm and with a population that keeps growing.
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Videos
Video: How Whales Help Sequester CO2
We know that the world’s forests—boreal, temperate and tropical—play a large role in sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2)—as long as drought, harvesting, insect damage and wildfires don’t overpower them. But we may have another “champion” helping us to combat rising CO2 levels: whales.
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Videos
Nature Finally Talks Back—And It Has Some Tough Words for Us
I’m not sure when the conversation about keeping our air and water clean and conserving our natural resources and wildlife became such a political, polarizing issue.
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Videos
Video of the Week: Tremendous Number of Whales in Antarctica!
On a recent Natural Habitat Antarctica Expedition, guests were treated to a wildlife encounter of a lifetime. Watch as they are surrounded by an astonishing number of whales and porpoises off the coast of the icy continent, with a backdrop of majestic icebergs and rugged mountains.
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Nature & Wildlife
Top 10 Facts about the World’s Oceans
Oceans play a crucial role in our planet’s health by regulating global temperatures. Oceans are also home to a staggering amount of life and provide more than a billion people with their primary source of protein. Today is World Oceans Day, and we certainly have a lot to celebrate and to protect.
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Videos
Video of the Week: Slow Life – An Underwater Timelapse
I recently came across one of the most stunning time-lapse videos I’ve seen in a while titled Slow Life. Daniel Stoupin, a Ph.D. student from the University of Queensland in Australia, made it by taking a series of photographs over a period of nine months.
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Videos
World Tour of the Arctic Tern
When you hear about the great journeys undertaken by some of nature’s smallest creatures, you can’t help but feel inspired to step into adventures of your own that may be outside your comfort zone. And no odyssey is greater than that of the Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea).
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Videos
Finding the Real Sea Monsters
Sea monsters are the stuff of thrilling fiction. From Jules Verne’s 1870 book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to James Cameron’s 1989 movie The Abyss, tales of what creatures lurk in our oceans have captured our rapt attentions for more than a hundred years.