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Candice Gaukel Andrews

106-Year-Old Fruitcake Found in Antarctica

For a food that has been around at least since the Middle Ages, fruitcakes certainly have their share of detractors. The long list of jokes about fruitcakes—a...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Creating a New National Park: Possible or Pipe Dream?

Today, in the current political climate, with national parks falling into disrepair because of budget cuts and parks and monuments threatened with downsizing,...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Keeping It Local: Nat Hab Fallfest 2017

On the last weekend of September, the cottonwoods along Colorado’s Arkansas River were in full fall glory, burnished gold against the cobalt blue sky and...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Disappearing Glaciers of Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park is smack-dab in the center of the breathtaking Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, which spans 10 million acres on either side of the...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Introducing Nat Hab & WWF’s 2018 Catalog of the World’s Greatest Nature Journeys

Fresh Off the Press! I returned to beloved Vancouver, British Columbia, last month for the printing of the 2018 Catalog of World’s Greatest Nature Journeys...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

99 Percent of Us Want Our National Parks and Monuments Protected, but Downsizing Looms

In quiet places, we yearn for absolution. But peace swiftly flees. It’s not surprising that 99.2 percent of us want our national parks and monuments to...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

#NatHabEclipse Photo Roundup

Nat Hab staff had a stellar time watching the solar eclipse at our Boulder, Colorado headquarters. The fun continued as your photo submissions to the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

African Wild Dogs Are the First Heat-Adapted Species Shown to Be Suffering from Climate Change

Polar bears struggling to find the ice floes they need for hunting and survival became the icon of climate change and our rapidly warming planet decades ago....

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WWF

Promising Rise in Jaguar Numbers in Argentina

The Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina (FVSA), the country representative of WWF in Argentina, recently celebrated the increase of the jaguar population in...

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Emily Deemer

#NatHabEclipse Hashtag Contest—Share Your Eclipse Experiences With Us!

On Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, it's safe to assume that much American productivity will come to a standstill as umbraphiles flock to watch the first total solar...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Be a Wildlife Naturalist During August’s Solar Eclipse

On Monday, August 21, 2017—for the first time in nearly a century—a total solar eclipse will cross the United States from coast to coast. A solar eclipse...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Larsen Ice Shelf Breakoff: Our Future in Ice

A gigantic iceberg has just broken off from Antarctica’s massive Larsen C Ice Shelf. The berg began its independent life sometime in the middle of July 2017....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzly Bears Just Lost Federal Protections

Later this month, in late July 2017, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears outside Yellowstone National Park and nearby Grand Teton National Park will...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change Action Figures: Our Governors and Mayors

The United States has officially left the Paris Agreement on climate change, the 2015 pact in which more than 150 nations pledged to curb greenhouse gas...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Needing Trees: Giant Sequoia National Monument and a Forested City

Today is the Fourth of July, the day we celebrate the founding of the United States and all the things that make our nation unique. More than 150 years ago,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Quickly Losing Protections: Our Birds, Lands and Oceans

One hundred and eleven years ago, the American Antiquities Act of 1906 was passed. It authorizes the president to designate federally managed lands as...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Good News for Climate Change: World’s First Carbon-Capturing Plant Opens

In 628 months, there hasn’t been a cool one. That’s more than 52 years. “Global warming has made cold scarce,” writes Brian Kahn in an April 19, 2017, article...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Global Seed Vault Fails: “Permanently Frozen” Isn’t Anymore

Anything in deep freeze was supposed to be safe—for forever. Such as our toxic wastes. Such as the crop seeds we’ll need in case of a global catastrophe and...

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