Right now, Earth is experiencing an amazing natural event — one you may not even have noticed if you haven’t been looking directly at the sun, as your mother wisely warned. A very large sunspot has been tracking across our nearest star and is about to face directly toward our planet. Known as AR1476, the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
Moving Bison with a Song
On March 8, 2012, seventy-one bison calves newly arrived from Canada stepped onto the Montana plains. They came to join the established herd of bison on the American Prairie Reserve, the one that once belonged to their ancestors. One hundred years ago, the last of Montana’s Pablo-Allard herd was sold to the Canadian government. At [...]
Room for Wolverines to Roam
Although they resemble small bears, wolverines actually belong to the weasel family. These solitary animals primarily live in the remote reaches of northern boreal forests, in the sub-Arctic tundra of northern Canada, on the alpine and Arctic tundras of Alaska and the Northern Hemisphere, in the Nordic countries of Europe, and throughout western Russia and [...]
It All Started with a Seal
A desk phone, $600, and one very wacky photograph. It’s just about all Ben Bressler had about twenty-five years ago, when the idea to create Natural Habitat Adventures was still just flickering in the back of his mind. Who could predict that this little start-up would one day evolve into a world leader in nature [...]
Natural Areas of the Future May Be Cities
A baby born in India was recently selected to represent the seven billionth person added to the world. It’s clear that Homo sapiens sapiens, at least for now, aren’t in any eminent danger of going extinct. That can’t be said for many other species, however, that share this blue planet with us. In fact, our [...]
