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Celebrating Earth Day 2022: A Look at the Past and Future

The most renowned day to celebrate the Earth falls on April 22nd each year, otherwise known as Earth Day. This annual holiday brings people together from all...

WWF

How Forests Provide, Prevent, and Heal

For millions of us, a walk in the woods changed from a pastime to a necessity during this pandemic. It’s about as safe and socially distanced as can be, and...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Found: Fishing Jaguars in Brazil’s Phenomenal Pantanal

At more than 81,000 square miles—greater than 10 times the size of Florida’s Everglades—the Pantanal, located mostly in Brazil, is the largest tropical...

Cathy Brown

Shackleton’s Endurance is Found in Antarctica

Aptly named, apparently, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic vessel Endurance had been lost for 107 years—and was just found jaw-droppingly intact on the bottom...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Our National Parks Have a Popularity Problem

Let’s step into the Wayback Machine and go to 2015, just six years after producer Ken Burns’ documentary miniseries The National Parks: America’s Best Idea...

Laura Kiniry

CNN Travel’s Best Places to Visit in 2022: See the Nat Hab Destinations on the List

In the early 19th century, a fur trapper and wilderness guide named Jim Bridger became one of the first European-Americans to experience the natural offerings...

Emily Goodheart

Nat Hab Destinations from NYT’s 52 Places for a Changed World

The New York Times' annual list of 52 can't-miss destinations looks a little different this year—rather than highlighting a delightful new beachfront resort...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Natural Habitat Adventures Introduces Alaska Bear Camp

A 5-day immersion with brown bears from a private fly-in wilderness camp offering rustic luxury and total solitude Natural Habitat Adventures is introducing...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Nature Is Good for Your Brain—and Body Image

Nature’s got a lot going for it—and for us. Seeing a breathtaking landscape or experiencing a natural phenomenon typically leaves us feeling appreciative,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Eating Sweets Is Healthy? For Greenlanders, Yes!

Was one of your 2022 New Year’s resolutions to take better care of yourself? Did you, perhaps, promise in this COVID-19 era that you’d exercise more and eat...

Emily Goodheart

22 Nat Hab Travel Destinations Named Top Trips of 2022

For two years, many of us have dreamed up lists of far-away places, and as travel restrictions and border closures continued, these plans seemed increasingly...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Pablo Escobar’s Hippos: Ecosystem Restorers and Legal Plaintiffs

In the 1980s, Colombian cocaine kingpin and drug trafficker Pablo Escobar purchased four hippopotamuses for his private zoo. After he died in 1993, the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

A New Whale Species Is Found Living in the Gulf of Mexico

Whales are fascinating beings. After living on the land for a while, their ancestors chose to go back to the sea; they have their own, complicated cultures;...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Good News: Pikas Now Predicted to Persist

A relative of rabbits, tiny, cute and charismatic American pikas typically live in cool, mountain environments and find refuge from the hot sun under boulders...

Emily Goodheart

Canada Is Opening (and the Polar Bears Are Waiting)

I'm sure by now you've heard the news that so many of us have eagerly waited for—Canada will open its borders to vaccinated Americans on August 9th. We join...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

News on Kangaroos and an Australia Atlas of Nature

Kangaroos have become iconic poster children for Australia’s great outback. But although the kangaroo is a national emblem for the country, some locals also...

WWF

10 Facts About the Panama Canal

In 1914, the Panama Canal joined the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, changing international trade forever. The 50-mile-long pathway through the Isthmus of Panama...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Studying the Structure of Giant Sequoias to Keep Us Safer

Yosemite National Park’s massive mountains—such as El Capitan, one of the world’s tallest monoliths—and its many waterfalls—such as Yosemite Falls, which...

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