Conservation
New Year’s Day 2019: What Outdoor Place Misses You?
My father never had the “urge for going,” as songwriter-singer Joni Mitchell calls it—the desire to travel. I place the blame for that fact squarely on the shoulders of World War II.
Good Nature Travel Blog
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Weddell Seal
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a Weddell seal in Antarctica. Photographer Lisa Marun was photographing the wildlife of Antarctica when she spotted this Weddell seal in Neko Harbour. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
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Antarctica & Arctic
Under the Ice in Antarctica and Greenland: More Future Warming and a Past Cooling Down
If you were asked to name active volcano sites around the world, you’d probably include places such as Hawaii, Yellowstone National Park and Iceland, the country often labeled “the land of fire and ice.” But what’s under the white, frozen expanses in Antarctica may be far more dramatic.
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Conservation
Signing Pledges to Be Better Tourists
While travel has the potential to positively impact the places visited—infusing money into local economies, supporting local artisans and conservation projects, and promoting understanding across cultures—it also has the capability to destroy the very things we seek to experience and explore.
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News & More
There is Life in the Ice, and It’s Got a Message about Climate Change
Scientists have long considered polar ice to be an extreme environment; a sterile place within which nothing can survive.
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Travel Tales
The National Park Service: Big Wonders in Small Spots
If I asked you to name your favorite National Park Service (NPS) places, you’d probably immediately mention parks such as Grand Canyon National Park, Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Zion National Park and Glacier National Park.
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Antarctica & Arctic
Traveler Story: Paradise in Antarctica
“A bank of fog lingered far off in the distance along the Antarctic Peninsula, leaving us with sunshine and blue skies on the morning of a day that would turn out to be one of the best of my life.
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Antarctica & Arctic
Salty Asterix of the Antarctic Seas | Olaf’s Corner
It was a dark and stormy night in the northern Antarctic Ocean… We were two days out of Port Stanley in the Falklands and the freezing wind ripped through the mast rigging.
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Videos
Video: When Earth Was Warmer than We Have Ever Known
Close your eyes and picture a vivid green, lush rain forest that’s teeming with life. If I asked you where you imagined you were, your answer would probably be something like the Amazon or Costa Rica. But not too long ago—geologically speaking—your reply could have been the Arctic.
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Nature & Wildlife
Fossil Finds and Penguin Packs: Final Frontiers Still Found on Earth
When you look at the immense footprints humans have left on this planet, it might lead you to conclude that we’ve trod, explored and exploited almost every inch of it; that there is nothing truly unknown or wild remaining. That’s why getting new evidence to the contrary is so hopeful and inspiring.
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News & More
Emoji: the New Language of Adventure and Travel Writing?
In case you can’t read the sentence in the image below, I’ll translate it for you: “I love the snows of Antarctica and the glaciers of Greenland. And so, my adventures in ice began.” I wrote that statement with the help of an online emoji translator.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Heroic Age of Exploration and Our Not-So-Gutsy Times
Big dreams of adventure were not uncommon in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a time known as the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration.