A video of a mother polar bear and her cub making their first journey together onto the sea ice. From BBC’s “Nature’s Great Events.”
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Live From Churchill: Nov 4, 2009
Guide Scott reported in that the polar bears seemed to be all over the vehicles on the inland road close to the lodge. One aggressive male whacked the driver’s side door before going to the rear and sniffing boots from under the back grated deck.
Live from Churchill: Nov 3, 2009
Polar rover heaters were cranking yesterday as the frigid air flowed from the north. Temperatures were in the low teens F and the bears were on the move again.
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 [...]
Cheetah Chase Captures AC Photo Prize
The winner of Adventure Collection’s August 2009 Photo Contest has been announced, and the prize is a trip on Natural Habitat Adventures’ Classic Polar Bear Tour!
Gulf Sea Turtles Gain Protection with New Fishing Regs
Marine turtles are among the world’s most threatened, but one piece of good news has emerged for loggerhead turtles in the Gulf of Mexico.




