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Americans may finally be getting more concerned about climate change, according to the Pew Research Center. In a brand-new survey about policy priorities that was conducted January 7–11, 2015, the organization found that more of us now view “global warming” as an important consideration for the president and Congress.
Travel Tips
This travel tale is shared by Rick Guthke, Vice President of Natural Habitat Adventures Headquarters.
Conservation
An experience of the world’s vanishing wild places is the heart of what we offer at Natural Habitat Adventures.
Travel Tales
I have a fixation with ice and the world’s cold places. I think it’s mostly because I’m convinced that winter is an endangered “species.” That’s why the poles have always called to me.
Travel Tips
I recently signed up for Spanish lessons. I’ve been meaning to study Spanish for almost 30 years now, but for some reason, it was always one of those things that fell to the bottom of my priority list. That is, until now. My enrollment in the class was inspired by a trip to Antarctica in March.
Travel Tales
This travel tale was writtten by Andrea Reynolds, Adventure Specialist at Natural Habitat Adventures When I took my first trip to Greenland, my first impression was just as I’ve heard others describing it—Greenland is icy and Iceland is green. Our adventure kicked off in Reykjavik, Iceland. From there we flew to Eastern Greenland.
Nature Photography
Have you ever wanted to travel back in time to see what the world was like 50 years ago… 100 years ago… 200 years ago? What about 9,000 years ago? A new book that just came out today, The Oldest Living Things in the World by Rachel Sussman, can do just that.
Conservation
By Jacqueline Nunes, Writer, Strategic Partnerships & Development, WWF-Canada. Way, way, way up—way up—north is probably not the first place you’d look if you wanted to find a shark.
Travel Tips
It’s December 31, the eve of a brand-new year. Time for reflection on the past 12 months and dreams of how we’ll make 2014 even better. And that puts us into the territory of New Year’s resolutions.
Nature Photography
With hundreds of staggeringly beautiful, ice-choked fjords, snowcapped summits, rushing waterfalls and flowing glaciers, Greenland is a paradise for cold-place fans, such as myself. And, if you seek remote and unpopulated corners, Greenland satisfies on that count, too.
Videos
Not since Al Gore’s 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth has such a powerful documentary feature film come out about the Earth’s changing climate.
Conservation
Nearly all of Greenland’s vast ice sheet experienced surface melting earlier this month, as NASA data show rapid acceleration and scope of diminishing ice.
