Videos
Video: Red-Tailed Hawk and Bull Snake Mix-Up
Predator meeting prey is part of the circle of life in nature. All living organisms need nutrition to produce the energy required to run their systems.
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Conservation
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals: Powerful Protections or Paper Tigers?
From the tiny monarch butterfly to the immense wildebeest of Africa, many of the world’s animal species take on great migrations. Those epic travels may involve seasonal journeys of thousands of miles, traversing multiple countries. For them, our human political boundaries have no meaning.
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Travel Tales
Great Bear Rain Forest Rambles and Spirit Bear Sightings
Running 250 miles down the British Columbia, Canada, coast, the Great Bear Rain Forest is a wild expanse of western cedars, hemlocks and spruce trees. This 21 million-acre area—whose boundaries have never been precisely defined—is the largest coastal temperate rain forest on Earth.
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Nature & Wildlife
New UN Report on Climate Change: Only 50 PPM of Greenhouse Gases Now Stands between Us and Disaster
The United Nations’ report on climate change released on Sunday, November 2, 2014, predicted a gloomy future for the residents of planet Earth. It stated that the dangers of human-caused climate change are no longer debatable; they are real and are even now being felt all over the world.
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Videos
Video of Lil’ Drac: An Orphaned Baby Bat
Bram Stoker is probably to thank for our fascination with bats at this time every year. In 1897 when he penned Dracula, the story of a human vampire who could transform into a bat, he cemented our associating bats with all things scary from the late 19th century on.
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Nature & Wildlife
Video of the Week: The Most Amazing Migration Ever Caught On Tape!
This awe-inspiring time-lapse video captured hundreds of thousands of wildebeest fighting across the Mara River from Tanzania into Kenya. Amazingly, in just thirty minutes as many as ten thousand wildebeest are able to cross the river! It took five days for the photographers to record the entire crossing.
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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: the Pronghorn Path, the First Federally Protected Wildlife Corridor
For nearly 6,000 years, pronghorn have made an annual migration from their summer range around the highlands of Grand Teton National Park to their wintering grounds, located about 170 miles south in the sagebrush-covered Upper Green River Valley near the town of Pinedale, Wyoming.
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Nature & Wildlife
Counting Wild Tigers by 2016: Will It Help Save Them?
On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 13 countries that have wild tiger populations agreed to take part in a global census of the endangered big cats. The hope is that this count will then lead to improved policies to protect them in order to meet a goal of doubling their numbers by 2022—a plan known as Tx2.
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Travel Tales
Photos from a Polar Bear Travel Season
If, like me, you like to travel, there’s probably one particular place away from home that just seems to stick in your heart and head—the one spot where your wanderlust was first awakened.
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Nature & Wildlife
WWF Report: 52 Percent of the World’s Biodiversity Is Gone
When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released its Living Planet Report 2014 on September 30, it wasn’t the usual doom-and-gloom environmental news story that is forgotten the next day.
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Nature & Wildlife
As Climate Change Threatens Their Survival, Polar Bears Discover New Food Source
The arctic sea ice is melting earlier than ever before because of global climate change. Polar bears now have less time to hunt for seals, threatening their survival.