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Monarch Populations Decrease
A recent survey found that monarch butterflies only occupied 7 acres of forest during the 2019-2020 winter season, a 53% decrease from the 15 acres that were occupied only one year ago. Every year,
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Video: Elephants and Lions Align Against Rhinos
The term Africa’s Big Five means something quite different today than it did when it was coined in the late 1800s during the continent’s colonial period. Then, it referenced the animals—Cape buffalo (or African buffalo),
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5 Activities to Explore Our World From Home
These are difficult times. As you have likely started to feel the impacts of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic in your community, we hope you’re taking extra care to stay safe and healthy, for yourself,
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20 Tips for Making the Most of Your National Park Trip
Mountains, seashores, grasslands, wetlands, coral reefs and glaciers. Our national parks protect a multitude of terrains for every taste. And with more than 400 national park units across the country to explore, it can be daunting
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How to Be a Better Environmentalist When Traveling
Like many of you, I suspect, I worry a lot about environmental issues: diminishing biodiversity, climate change, greenhouse gases and melting glaciers. Yet, about once a year, I book a flight. And even though
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Video: Rewilding Scotland’s Highlands with Wildcats
Bears, lynx, wolves and wildcats used to roam the lands that today make up Great Britain. European brown bears, however, have been extinct there since at least the early Middle Ages—and possibly even earlier. British lynx disappeared around 700 A.D., due to
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Nat Hab Supports Gray Whale Research in Baja
Nat Hab Philanthropy is helping fund whale research in San Ignacio Lagoon, where we take travelers to see the Great Gray Whales of Baja. This unique marine ecosystem is located in the Whale Sanctuary
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Climate Change Is Affecting Alaska’s Salmon—and Its Bears
Katmai National Park is a realm of untrammeled rivers, pristine streams and clear lakes. The park and the greater Alaska Peninsula are part of the Bristol Bay Watershed, which, according to World Wildlife Fund,
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