Nature & Wildlife
No Kid Can Resist a Mud Puddle
Talk about something to make you smile on a Friday… Take a look at what happens when a young elk comes across an irresistible place to play!
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News & More
Real-Time vs. Reflective Adventures
“Wish you were here.” It’s the archetypal message on a picture postcard, sent from a friend or family member in some far-off holiday or vacation spot. In fact, the expression has become so cliché that you can now find postcards with the sentiment already preprinted.
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Nature & Wildlife
Animals Just Want to Have Fun
In a fourth grade science unit, I can remember my teacher telling the class that making and using tools was one of the most significant things that set human beings apart from all the other animals on the planet. But that was before YouTube (or even the Internet, for that matter!).
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Travel Tips
There’s an App for That
A quick count of the field guides lined up on the bookshelves in my office currently numbers about 25 tomes. Some are quite hefty at several hundred pages, and some are nothing more than large-format, laminated sheets.
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Nature & Wildlife
Overcome Your Family's Nature Deficit Disorder
When I was growing up in damp western Washington, I remember many occasions where my dad insisted we kids leave the TV and spend time outside. It may have been gray and drizzly, but he knew there was something valuable about fresh air and green spaces. I usually didn’t need much convincing.
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Conservation
100 Amazing Places to Protect
Well, if you guessed that you could see them all with Natural Habitat Expeditions, you’d be right, but that’s ultimately not the most important trait they share. These wild animals, along with a host of geological and cultural features that comprise some of Earth’s most distinctive places, are facing dramatic impacts from climate change.
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Travel Tales
In the Unplanned Moments, Travel Happens
There are probably just as many “types” of travelers as there are travelers.
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Conservation
Kenya's Zebra and Wildebeest Relocation Program
Kenya’s Amboseli National Park will be receiving a few thousand new animals in 2010. The park located in southern Kenya on the border with Tanzania suffered a major setback in 2009 with droughts that caused over 60% of the zebra and wildebeest population to perish.
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Conservation
Asian Countries Pledge to Double Tiger Population
A small ray of hope has given Asia’s dwindling tiger population a chance at recovering their numbers. A 13 country coalition has pledged to double the current paltry number of tigers in the wild (estimate at 3,200) in the next decade.
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Conservation
Saving Coca Cola’s Adorable Polar Bears
Remember those cheerful Coca Cola commercials with the cute polar bears? The global soft drink company is now working to save the very environment they advertise.
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Nature & Wildlife
Live From Churchill: Nov 13, 2009
The Hudson Bay remains calm with scattered ice chunks floating towards shore aided by light North winds. Temperatures hovered around 25F, just low enough to allow bears to continue moving all across the tundra and in and around town.
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Nature & Wildlife
Ice Skating Polar Bears!
A video of a mother polar bear and her cub making their first journey together onto the sea ice. From BBC’s “Nature’s Great Events.”