Conservation
Go Tell a Polar Bear How Much of the Arctic You’re Melting!
Scientists can now measure individuals’ direct contributions to global climate change—and the results are staggering.
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Conservation
2016: A tipping point for Churchill’s polar bears?
This article was originally published in WWF’s Thin Ice Blog In mid-November, I spent a week in Churchill on Canada’s Hudson Bay Coast. It’s one of the most popular places for viewing polar bears, as they gather on the shore waiting for the sea ice to form, so they can end their long summer fast.
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Videos
Video: What’s Warming the Earth—Explained
“July 2016 was the 379th consecutive month with temperatures at least nominally above the 20th-century average,” says the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. July 2016 was also the 40th July in a row of above average temperatures. Those statements should shock you because they’re undeniable facts.
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Travel Tips
How to Get Face-to-Face With Polar Bears in the Wild
Do you dream of seeing polar bears in the wild? When you’re considering trip options, why settle for a tour where you’ll be peering at polar bears in the distance? You deserve an intimate encounter with the “King of the Arctic”!
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Travel Tales
Polar Bear Alert in Greenland | Olaf’s Corner
The three sets of polar bear footprints on the tundra slope in East Greenland were very fresh. Two sets belonged to a pair of younger cubs and the third larger set was their mother’s.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Praying Bear
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a polar bear out of Churchill, Manitoba. Photographer Kim Petersen photographed the bears of Churchill before they ventured out onto the sea ice to hunt for food.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: The Feast
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected polar bears in Alaska. Photographer Yaron Schmid witnessed a polar bear and her two cubs swim up to a whale carcass and feed while gulls swarmed around them.
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Nature & Wildlife
Nature is worth protecting
Remember when you were young? Did you play outside? Did you explore? World Wildlife Fund and Natural Habitat Adventures have teamed up with Maser Films, Pongo Media and King Tide Motion Pictures to ask these and many other questions we tend to forget as time and life’s responsibilities loom over us.
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Travel Tales
Green Glimmer of the Northern Lights
There are a variety of categories on one’s bucket list — things you know you will experience this year (“the low-hanging fruit”), things you might get to within the next five years (“sooner rather than later”), things you will definitely do, but might get to much later in life (“one day”), and things you…
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Travel Tales
Churchill Without Expectations
I’m one of those people who tends to travel with zero expectations. This isn’t because I have some overly pessimistic worldview or have had some unfortunate litany of bad travel experiences. On the contrary: I’m optimistic to a fault and all of my “top ten” life moments have occurred while traveling.
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Travel Tales
Farewell to a Lifelong Adventurer and Nat Hab Guest
At age 100, Elsa Bailey became one of Nat Hab’s most memorable guests when we invited her to join our Tundra Lodge and Town Adventure to Churchill, Manitoba in 2013, after learning that seeing polar bears in the wild was one of the remaining items on her bucket list.
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Travel Tales
A Boyhood Dream Comes True in Churchill
Growing up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, you know about the Churchill polar bears. After all, they are a big part of the Canadian province’s unique identity. Every year, news reports would show the polar bears invading the small town of Churchill.