Asia & The Pacific
Christmas 2021: Coexisting with Cats, an India Story
In a few days, many of you will be celebrating Christmas or another religious holiday.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Natural Environment—and the People Who Depend on It
Even if you don’t know much about the science regarding COVID-19, you probably can’t escape the fact that the disease has caused major changes in your everyday life and livelihood.
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Asia & The Pacific
Snow Leopards and Conservation Travel in Ladakh, India
Insights from India Expedition Leader Surya Ramachandran Ladakh, the Indian trans-Himalaya, is one of the last bastions of Tibetan Buddhism in the 21st century.
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Nature & Wildlife
Asian Elephants Have Distinct Personalities Similar to Ours
Anyone who has ever adopted a cat or dog into the family knows that each pet is distinctive. One of your dogs, for example, may have loved to spend all day at your side, while another may have enjoyed some daytime hours to chill out by herself on her favorite couch.
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Nature & Wildlife
Pandemic Ponderings: 25 Phenomenal Facts about our Planet
Since 1970, the annual Earth Day has been a time for us to reflect on the beautiful planet, the third from the sun, that we call home.
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Conservation
Cooking Stoves: Curbing Disease and Cutting Climate Change
Around the world, nearly 3 billion people cook their meals using open fires or simple stoves fueled by biomass (animal dung, crop waste or wood), coal or kerosene, according to the World Health Organization.
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Nature & Wildlife
See World Heritage Sites with Natural Habitat Adventures
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines world heritage as “our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration.”
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News & More
A World on Fire: Battling Blazes in Borneo’s Rainforests
Forest fires hit home particularly hard in 2019, as people in every corner of the Earth watched the world burn. Abnormal Arctic fires occurred in Alaska, Greenland and Russia’s Siberian province, which houses the largest forest in the world.
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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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Asia & The Pacific
New Zealand Grants Mountains, Parks and Rivers Personhood
When it comes to the world’s waters, I’m more of a river person than a lake person. Rivers always seem to me to be on an urgent mission; they go places. They “run” downstream, “charge” over cliffs—creating thunderous waterfalls—and riffle over boulders to manufacture rapids. Lakes, in my opinion, kind of just stay there.
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African Safaris
Ethiopia Plants 350 Million Trees in a Day: Shatters World Record
In just 12 hours, Ethiopia planted 353,633,660 trees, shattering the previous world record for trees planted in a single day.
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Asia & The Pacific
Test Your Tiger IQ!
By Emily Goodheart Kautz and Courtney Nachlas Tigers have been revered for centuries. Take one look at their striking coloring, muscled body and amber eyes, and it’s no small wonder. Yet these distinctive cats face increasing pressure as they are forced out of their forest homes due to habitat fragmentation and poaching.