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Every week, embark with host Boyd Matson on an exploration of the latest discoveries and interviews with some of the most fascinating people on the planet, on National Geographic Weekend. Please check listings near you to find the best way to listen to National Geographic Weekend, or pick your favorite segments and listen now below! Episode: 1317 – Air…
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Day 2 of the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Project and the team gets some company from a gaggle of local school children eager to help them with their fieldwork. The team quickly discovers that they have a lot to learn from the kids too- their unique perspective as islanders and even a dance lesson in how to “dougie”.
NOAA is teaming up with Crittercam to help save one of the oldest species on the planet from habitat loss, growing human hostility, and in some cases, seal killings.
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National Geographic, The Monk Seal Foundation, and NOAA Fisheries are teamimg up to help dispel myths about monk seals and find solutions for fishermen and seals alike.
Posted by The 2011 All Roads Film Festival arrives at National Geographic headquarters today and continues through the weekend, celebrating indigenous cultures with film screenings, directors’ discussions and photo exhibits. Here’s a glimpse of what’s around the bend, courtesy of NGM staffers and interns who got a sneak peek: 1. NAME OF FILM: Benda Bilili! WHEN TO…
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Forget about the spurious benefits of eating shark fin soup, a traditional Chinese delicacy that is said to be responsible for the needless destruction of some 73 million sharks a year. In Palau, the first country in the world to proclaim a shark sanctuary, the sharks that frequent the Pacific island country’s reefs generate enormous financial benefits. Each reef shark may contribute benefits worth U.S.$2 million over its lifetime.
Posted by Before succumbing to her legendary death-by-snake in 30 B.C., Cleopatra VII, last queen of Egypt, gave birth to twins. Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene II were born in 40 B.C., two of the eight children sired by Roman general Mark Antony during his lifetime. As it happens, the asteroid 216 Kleopatra also had twins: Two…
By Amanda Nickson and Julie Arner The whale shark is the largest fish in the ocean. A favorite of many nature lovers, a mature adult is roughly the size of a school bus – weighing more than 20 tons on average and measuring up to ten yards in length. This massive stature and the fact that…
For the past two years the Large Hadron Collider has been a poster child for Big Science. The huge European particle accelerator holds the promise to re-create the origins of the universe, reveal the nature of dark matter, and explain why ordinary matter—you, me, this computer—has mass. But in a highly theoretical scenario, the LHC…
Two birds, one insect and forty-five plants unique to the Hawaiian island Kauai are now listed under the federal Endangered Species Act, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced this week. Salazar also announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which is responsible for administering the Endangered Species Act, is designating critical habitat on the…
A tsunami generated by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile struck Hawaii Saturday, but an official with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) said the island chain “dodged a bullet” after smaller-than-expected waves were reported, CNN said. The PTWC lifted all tsunami warnings, watches, or advisories. “The first waves of the tsunami were recorded on The Big…
An 8.8 magnitude earthquake was registered 22 miles underground off the coast of Chile early this morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reports. One of the strongest earthquakes on record, the temblor has triggered tsunami advisories across the Pacific Ocean, including Japan and California. This map put out by NOAA’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center shows the location (the…
—Picture courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Yesterday NASA successfully hurtled another telescope into the heavens: the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Judging from the plethora of news coverage, WISE has quite a few people pretty excited. After all, NASA has only a handful of operational space telescopes up there right now … roughly 15 by my count…
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released this space picture of Pearl Harbor this week, on the 68th anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Naval base in the harbor by military forces of Japan. The attack caused the U.S. to enter World War II. The photo was made by an astronaut on…
Is it mold on a bathroom wall? A close-up of a Dalmatian? The results of a tragic toner-cartridge accident? —Image courtesy NASA/JPL/University of Arizona In fact, it’s a Martian volcano in the process of defrosting. The ancient cauldron is part of a group of volcanoes that rings the Hellas impact basin on the red planet’s…
Whew! Egypt = amazing. I can’t even begin to describe the wonder and awe of standing inside a pyramid or walking the Avenue of the Sphinxes or sailing in a felucca on the Nile. It really is something everyone should do at some point in their lives. The best part is that it seems I…
Sometimes it seems like being large, distant, and gassy is a major turn-off for space engineers—unless you’ve got great eyes or lots of jewelry. Of the eight recognized planets in our solar system, the terrestrial worlds are by far the in-crowd as far as scientific orbiters are concerned, with Mars and Earth as the obvious…
It’s time for a luau! On Wednesday the IAU finally approved a name for our solar system’s fifth dwarf planet: Haumea, after a Hawaiian fertility goddess. Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology, whose team found the object in 2004, definitely seems to be on a roll filling the sky with non-Greek or Roman…
