Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Antarctica & Arctic

    Penguins and Their Original Homelands

    Aug 13, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Part of the reason that I’m so enthralled with Antarctica is because it’s one of the rare places on Earth that has never had an Indigenous population; in other words, there are no native human Antarcticans. Of course, animals other than us have lived there for eons. Perhaps, the best known and most abundant are penguins.

  • Conservation

    AI and VR for Nature’s Future

    Aug 5, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Virtual reality (VR)—a technology that simulates a three-dimensional (3D) environment, allowing users to interact with a computer-generated world as if they were physically present—can create dynamic, immersive and personalized experiences.

  • Conservation

    Ethnobiology: Conservation Comes of Age

    Jul 29, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Conservation is growing up. The field is no longer just about how to protect an animal group’s numbers and making efforts to keep it from going extinct by identifying key habitats and focusing on natural resource management. Ethnobiology has entered the conservation space in a big way.

  • Conservation

    Our Climate Future: Renewables Are Inevitable

    Jul 22, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    It’s July, and I already know what’s coming. Scientists will find that 2025 is one of the hottest years on record, just like 2024 was and 2023 before it. They’ve been warning us for decades that this would happen.

  • Conservation

    Fires and Forests: Controlled Burns and Beyond

    Jul 15, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    While wildfires and controlled burns (also known as prescribed burns) are both fires, they differ significantly in their impacts, management and origins. Wildfires are unplanned and unrestrained, often caused by natural events like lightning or human error—such as unattended campfires or discarded cigarettes—and they can cause extensive damage.

  • Churchill Polar Bears

    Getting to Know the Polar Bear: 8 Surprising Facts About the King of the Arctic

    Jul 10, 2025 · Cathy Brown

    Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are often in the news as the “poster animals” of climate change, but outside of the fact that they are big, look white (yes, that “look” part is important!), and their habitat is in severe danger, what else do most people really know about them?

  • Conservation

    Building Better Wildlife Corridors

    Jun 24, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    No one type of wildlife corridor benefits all animals. Overpasses, tunnels and underpasses need to be built smarter, with particular needs in mind.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Fossils: Past Preservers and Future Forecasters

    Jun 17, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Captivating remnants of ancient times, fossils offer a window into Earth’s history and the evolution of life. They document the past, providing clues about extinct species, vanished environments and the processes that shaped our planet.

  • News & More

    5 Measures to Ease Environmental Pressures

    Jun 10, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    We’re facing a climate emergency right now where environmental degradations, rising temperatures and extreme weather events are jeopardizing life on Earth. The climate conditions we’re stepping into have never been encountered in human history.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Science Storytelling

    May 20, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Human beings have been telling stories for as long as there have been languages to tell them in. We think in stories, we remember in stories, and we turn just about everything that we experience into a story.

  • News & More

    Technology Transforms Wildlife Tracking

    May 13, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Wildlife tracking has opened our eyes to many fundamental questions in the fields of conservation and ecology.