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Videos: I Suck; You Probably Do, Too
Plastics were originally invented to save animals. Let that fact sink in for a moment because it’s sadly ironic. Today, plastic plays a large part in killing them. It seems to have all started
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Plastic Straws Sent Packing from Scotland and Seattle
There’s a famous, one-word line in the 1967 movie The Graduate, when a well-meaning man advises a young college student, played by actor Dustin Hoffman, to think about the direction of his future. “Plastics,”
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Traveler Story: Scotland’s Wild Highlands & Islands
“Each day was an adventure, really. I do think the days we spent on Handa Island, and boating out to Little Bernera made the deepest impression. Trekking across the wild heaths, with the wind
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Video: the Aurora Borealis over Scotland
The northern lights—also known as the aurora borealis—have been around since the Earth formed an atmosphere more than four billion years ago. The dinosaurs saw them, early humans certainly gazed at them, you may
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Could Reintroducing Lynx to Great Britain Revive Ecotourism?
It’s a story too often told. Once, a predator roamed wildlands and then was relentlessly hunted to extinction or to the brink of it. In the Lower 48, the histories of bison, gray wolves,
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Traveler Story: Scotland’s Wild Highlands & Islands
“Scotland’s Wild Highlands & Islands was a different Nat Hab trip for me—unlike Africa and the Galapagos, where wildlife and un-peopled terrains were our mission, in the Highlands and Hebrides, we were magically and
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