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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...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Five Years after Deepwater Horizon, Arctic Drilling Okayed

Just over five years ago, on the evening of April 20, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded off the coast of Louisiana, rupturing the Macondo...

Ben Bressler

Apparently I am NOT the Most Interesting Man in the World! | Ben's Musings

Dear Nature Traveler, I fancy myself a pretty good nature traveler. I’ve run Natural Habitat Adventures for THIRTY YEARS now (ouch!), so I’ve had the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Nature Travel: The Health Benefits of Awe and Anticipation

The first time you see a lion on the great plains of Africa, it fills you with wonder. While watching a grizzly bear catch salmon at Brooks Falls in Alaska,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Linking Climate Change to Personal Health: Game Changer?

Suppose we meet for a cup of coffee, and in the course of our conversation, I tell you that 2014 was officially the hottest year on record. I mention that...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Research Shows Plants Are Sentient. Will We Act Accordingly?

Animal advocates and wildlife enthusiasts like you and me are always excited when new research comes out demonstrating the intelligence of the “others” among...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Fearing Climate Change: the Fact and the Phrase

Words are my business; I’m intrigued by them and the power they have. As an environmental writer, I am particularly interested in the terms we have to...

Emily Deemer

We want to know: Why does travel make you happy?

March 20th is International Day of Happiness, a special day created by the UN General Assembly to officially recognize the importance of happiness as a...

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