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Want to Improve Your Health and Increase Your Creativity? Travel More.

Thanksgiving kicks off not only an intense retail sales season but a busy travel period. News headlines about the numbers of us that take to the road, air or...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Applauding Paris: Climate Change Conference 2015 Will Go On

Before the terrorist attacks that left more than 125 people dead and hundreds wounded in Paris on Friday, November 13, 2015, the city was set to host the 21st...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

REI Closed on Black Friday: Altruism or Mere Marketing Ploy?

In recent decades, the day after Thanksgiving—known as “Black Friday”—has become the biggest shopping day of the year. Although no one seems to be able to say...

Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

The Most Sustainable—and Beautiful—Destination you’ve Never Heard Of: Montenegro

If destinations were judged by their diversity of natural beauty, then Montenegro—one of the newest officially independent countries in the world—would...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

As Earth’s Superpredators, Can We Change How We Use Wildlife?

Would you mind living next door to a top predator? It’s a question I’ve asked you before. It seems that when it comes to bears, lions or wolves, we humans, as...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Increasing Bad Behavior around Wildlife: Are More Regulations Needed?

Witnessing any of nature’s great spectacles—such as the wildebeest migration of Africa, the wintering grounds of millions of monarch butterflies in Mexico or...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

South Korean Forest Is Cut Down for the Olympics: Is Restoration Possible?

Most of us see the benefits of the world’s Olympic Games: they are some of the very few times nations come together to showcase their most beautiful...

Emily Deemer

Watch Nat Hab Featured on NBC's Today Show!

If you happened to be watching NBC's TODAY Show this morning, you may have seen a familiar face – Nat Hab's own Don Martinson, Director of Travel Industry...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Would You Give Up Your Fleece Jacket to Save Our Lakes, Oceans and Rivers?

You’ve cut down on the number of plastic water bottles you buy. You make sure to load your groceries into reusable fabric totes, forgoing the plastic bags the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Is There a New State Trend to Ban Citizen Science?

Citizen science has become an important tool for scientific research. Now, as funds for federal agencies and state natural resources departments around the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Wolves Return to California, but for How Long?

After almost a century, wolves have come home to California. On August 20, 2015, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced that it had...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Nat Hab and WWF's 2016 Catalog of the World’s Greatest Nature Journeys is on press!

Last week Nat Hab's Creative Director Mark Hickey flew to Vancouver, British Columbia to monitor the printing of the latest and greatest Catalog of World’s...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Environmental Activism: Arctic Drilling and Cecil, the Lion

On July 25, 2015, the MSV Fennica, a Royal Dutch Shell icebreaker which was carrying oil-drilling equipment to the Arctic, arrived in Portland, Oregon, for...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Alaska’s Permafrost Is Burning. That’s Not Good for You.

Alaska is on fire. Even where I live in Wisconsin, I can feel it. A NASA photo shows that a plume of smoke from those northern blazes extends all the way down...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Greenland’s Earthquakes: A Warming Planet’s New Worry?

Climate change has caused accelerated calving and melting of tidal glaciers around the world, resulting in a sea-level rise. But that’s not the only...

Derek Ward

Obama's New Plan May Save Monarchs and the U.S. Food Supply

Monarch butterfly populations have decreased so drastically over the past decade that a successful recovery is only hopeful. President Obama’s newly released...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Wind Power: Must the Choice Be Clean Energy or Wildlife?

To help meet our growing energy needs, in recent years we have increasingly turned to wind power. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that in...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Vacation Photographers: Would You Consider Hiring One?

One of the many joys of returning from a trip is being able to relive the experience by sorting through your vacation photos. Chances are that you managed to...

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