News & More
On Monday, August 21, 2017—for the first time in nearly a century—a total solar eclipse will cross the United States from coast to coast. A solar eclipse happens when a new moon moves between the Earth and the sun, blocking all or some of the sun’s rays.
Asia & The Pacific
Traveler Virginia Huang produced these excellent video compilations using some of the pictures and video clips from her June 2017 nature expedition to the wilds of Borneo with Natural Habitat Adventures.
News & More
In 628 months, there hasn’t been a cool one. That’s more than 52 years. “Global warming has made cold scarce,” writes Brian Kahn in an April 19, 2017, article published on the Climate Central website.
Videos
Traveler Bobby Jacobsen produced this video documenting a custom Botswana Safari with Natural Habitat Adventures. Be sure to watch the whole film—there’s a phenomenal wildlife sighting at the end!
Videos
Throughout history, people have been fascinated by wild animals that are all white. True to tradition, in Wisconsin, where I live, residents have a special affinity for and pride in the albino white-tailed deer herd that lives in our Northwoods.
Nature & Wildlife
WWF Senior Writer, Deborah Ackerman had a rare and thrilling sight while accompanying a Nat Hab trip through Botswana: a mother leopard carrying her newborn cubs across the KAZA landscape during green season—the time of year when most animals in Botswana’s Okavango Delta give birth.
Videos
Hummingbirds may be small, but they certainly pack a lot of appeal. Iridescent, colorful and capable of helicopter-like flying maneuvers, they enchant almost everyone. Hummingbirds were given their name because their wings flap so fast (about 80 times per second) that they make a humming noise.
Videos
Across the globe in the past few decades, an invasive chytrid fungus has been devastating amphibian populations. While scientists aren’t sure how the frog-killing form of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis swept the planet, many suspect it traveled by the importing and exporting of amphibians for food or the pet trade.
Videos
When the world gets to be too much, when we get too tired of hearing constant messages and always being tuned in, there’s nothing like heading out to a natural spot for some peace and quiet, right? Maybe not. Nature, it turns out, is a noisy place. We rarely achieve true silence when we’re outside.
Videos
The end of 2016 marks the closing of the National Park Service’s centennial year. For the past 12 months, we Americans have been appreciating, celebrating and visiting all of our 413 national park units, large and small.
Videos
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines wilderness as “a wild and natural area in which few people live.” It’s a simple explanation that succeeds in giving you an idea of the word’s meaning. But the term wilderness has come to encompass a much broader concept.
Videos
Thanks to some newly discovered aerial photographs from the 1930s, we can now see the retreat of some Greenland glaciers through time. Watch!
