Conservation
Obama's New Plan May Save Monarchs and the U.S. Food Supply
Monarch butterfly populations have decreased so drastically over the past decade that a successful recovery is only hopeful.
Good Nature Travel Blog
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Chatting Bee Eaters
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our new Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a couple of chatty carmine bee eaters. Photographer Judy Moncrief captured this photo while on safari in Botswana with Nat Hab. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
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Travel Tales
Travel Tale: Rite of Passage—Crossing the Drake
I’ve wanted to go to Antarctica ever since I first heard about it when I was a young child, probably in a children’s book about penguins or on TV. I thought it looked like a winter fairyland: so white, so pure, so beautiful. I dreamed about it for decades.
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News & More
Wind Power: Must the Choice Be Clean Energy or Wildlife?
To help meet our growing energy needs, in recent years we have increasingly turned to wind power. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that in 2014, 4.4 percent of the electricity we generated came from wind. However, the wind industry is set to expand exponentially from the current 60,000 megawatts of capacity to 300,000 by 2030.
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Videos
Video: Summer Beaches and Turtle Treks to the Sea
With the official start of summer arriving in just a little over a week, our thoughts are naturally turning to the world’s beaches. We won’t be the only ones, however, who’ll soon be populating the sands. Sea turtles are found in almost every ocean basin throughout the world.
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Conservation
One Bear’s Bad, Last Human Encounter
Almost a year ago, in July 2014, Washington state experienced the worst string of wildfires ever in its history. The first fire began on July 8 near the Entiat River. Then, on July 14, a lightning storm started dozens more across the eastern Cascade Range.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Grizzly's Afternoon Nap
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our new Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a sleepy grizzly on Alaska‘s coast. Photographer Steve Dodd captured this photo after wandering through the meadows of Hallo Bay on a trip to Alaska with Nat Hab.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Queen of Ranthambore
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our new Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose this majestic tiger in Ranthambore National Park, India. Photographer Ranjan Ramchandani says this tigress, named Krishna, had lured away a male tiger who had come too close to her cubs.
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Videos
Video: BP’s Oil Spill—Lost Islands and Relocated Birds
The many news reports regarding the consequences of rapid climate change have made us all familiar with the fact that some islands may soon disappear due to rising sea levels. But you may be surprised to learn that an offshore oil spill has already caused the destruction of an island.
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News & More
Five Years after Deepwater Horizon, Arctic Drilling Okayed
Just over five years ago, on the evening of April 20, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded off the coast of Louisiana, rupturing the Macondo exploration well below it.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Curious Cub in Katmai
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our new Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week, in honor of Bear Awareness Week, we chose this adorable grizzly cub in Alaska. Photographer Brad Josephs captured this photo while guiding a trip through Katmai National Park with Natural Habitat Adventures.
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Nature Photography
10 Uncommon Photography Composition Tips
Most people who appreciate the beauty and restorative benefits of nature eventually pick up a camera at some point or other in their lives.