The jagged coast of southern Chile is one of the most dramatic places on earth. A maze of fjords and islands, the topography is testament to the power of ice to shape a landscape. Massive glaciers wind down from the high Andes, calving blue icebergs into the frigid sea.
Patagonia’s crenellated western shoreline stretches more than [...]
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Protect Patagonia: Eat Sustainable Wild Salmon
Nature Words on the Brink of Extinction
I have an unusual dictionary. It’s titled Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, published by Trinity University Press in San Antonio, Texas, in 2006. In it, various naturalists define words such as “dune,” “kettle,” and “narrows.”
In my everyday Merriam Webster’s, for example, “riffle” is described as “a shallow extending across a streambed and causing [...]
Myth and Mystery in Mexico’s Monarch Kingdom
Each year around El Dia de los Muertos — celebrated Nov. 1 & 2 – the sky over the Mexican mountain village of Anguangeo becomes a flurry of orange. But it’s no swirl of bright autumn leaves. Instead, picture millions of monarch butterflies on the wing, fluttering in an endless stream into a few remote [...]
More good news for endangered sea turtles
Imagine the sight of thousands of 100-pound sea turtles, packed side by side on an expanse of beach stretching for two miles along Mexico’s Pacific coast. It’s not an image that comes easily to mind, considering how endangered these creatures are worldwide (see Good Nature on 9/25/2009 for more on the challenges sea turtles face).
But [...]
Natural Treasure Discovered in the Himalayas
Just as an amateur explorer with a metal detector recently found an astonishing hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver in England’s Midlands, scientists have discovered a biological treasure trove in the Eastern Himalayas. More than 350 new species have been unveiled after a decade of research in some of the most remote mountain areas on [...]
Behind the Lens: Preparing to Take Photos on a Wildlife Tour
This is the first in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography.
One of the biggest shames that professional photographer Steven Morello sees time and time again on nature tours is a traveler forgetting—accidentally or intentionally—to pack a camera charger.
“I’ve seen many travelers purposely not bring their battery chargers because they assumed someone else on the [...]
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