Antarctica & Arctic Stories

Antarctica Snow Is Made of Stardust

There’s something special about snow. Snow days. Snow forts. Snowmen. Snowshoeing. Sledding. Walking in a winter wonderland. And every winter, when it looks...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Emperor Penguins’ Big Air Down South

The Earth’s poles have a special kind of pull on me—sometimes called the “ice blink”—and that’s why on this Christmas Eve, I’m thinking of them. At this time...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Iceland at Its Most Elemental

There's a myth that Iceland got its name because Viking settlers didn’t want people flocking to their verdant island. They wanted to make sure that their...

Jennie Lay

East Greenland: One Wild Ride

Big ice. Big mountains. Big whales. Everything about Greenland is enormous. On the ground in East Greenland, a sense of awe bowled us over with each...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Traveler Story: Greenland in Words & Photos

Ellen and I have been fortunate to travel widely and see a world beyond where we live. Our recent trip to Greenland certainly ranks high on our list of...

Jennie Lay

Greenland: Keeping it Cool

Last summer, encounters with the Greenland ice sheet made me cry. Twice. In August, I traveled to East Greenland—the remote part of the frozen expanse that...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Greenland Whale Proves to Be the First Narwhal-Beluga Hybrid

If narwhal-beluga crosses (narlugas) are a result of climate change, will it help the two species continue to survive, or will it inadvertently doom them?

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Travel Tale: The Environmentalist Elves of Iceland

My guide was dead serious—or, at least, he seemed to be. He told me that there are elves in Iceland. He made this surprising statement while we were in his...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: The Natural Worlds of Antarctica and the Falklands

Well into this very cold winter—though still far from its end—I like to dream about the summer that’s happening some other place now, down at the bottom of...

Emily Goodheart

Inspiring Iceland: Five Facts About the Land of Ice & Fire

1. Waterfalls and Hidden Wonders From cascading waterfalls to glistening glaciers, Iceland is full of hidden wonders waiting to be discovered by the...

Kendal Bower

Memories of East Greenland

By Kendal Bower, Marketing Manager at Natural Habitat Adventures A few years ago I was fortunate to spend time in one of the most stunning places on...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Using Drone Photography to Protect the Arctic

Growing up in the Arctic regions of Canada made a lasting impression on National Geographic Young Explorer Nansen Weber. When he wasn’t out guiding guests who...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Under the Ice in Antarctica and Greenland: More Future Warming and a Past Cooling Down

If you were asked to name active volcano sites around the world, you’d probably include places such as Hawaii, Yellowstone National Park and Iceland, the...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Wilderness Medicine in East Greenland

By Lauren Deeley, Adventure Specialist at Natural Habitat Adventures I was O…VER…WHELMED. I was there. You’ve been there too. And if you haven’t yet, you’ll...

Natural Habitat Adventures

A Wild Polar Bear Encounter in Greenland

"We loved being at Base Camp Greenland. Being based there enabled us to see East Greenland up close and personal! Walking on the tundra, riding in the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Life in the Cold—Photographing Arctic Animals

Watch as one wildlife photographer confronts the cold across hundreds of miles to create captivating stills and video of Arctic wildlife!

Natural Habitat Adventures

Traveler Story: Paradise in Antarctica

"A bank of fog lingered far off in the distance along the Antarctic Peninsula, leaving us with sunshine and blue skies on the morning of a day that would turn...

Olaf Malver

Salty Asterix of the Antarctic Seas | Olaf’s Corner

It was a dark and stormy night in the northern Antarctic Ocean… We were two days out of Port Stanley in the Falklands and the freezing wind ripped through the...

Request Your 2025/2026 Catalog

Discover the World's Best

Nature Travel Experiences

Together, Natural Habitat Adventures and World Wildlife Fund have teamed up to arrange nearly 100 nature travel experiences around the planet, while helping to protect the magnificent places we visit and their wild inhabitants.