August 18, 2009 7:03 PM
Yesterday afternoon at around 2:30, the headwaters of the Okavango met up with the river flow down the Selinda, joining up the Selinda Spillway for the first time in 30 years!
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Whether you live near the coast or far from any shore, if you—say—breathe, your well-being depends on a healthy ocean.
Friends of the sea gathered last night at Nat Geo headquarters to commemorate World Ocean Day with a preview screening of the new film The End of the Line. A panel discussion with the filmmaker, marine scientists, and a chef and restaurateur who's also an outspoken advocate for marine conservation followed the screening.
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The culmination of a regional conservation movement spanning two-thirds of a century, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was created in 1966 as the result of a compromise. Owners of the steel mills and other heavy industry along the southern Lake Michigan shoreline wanted a new "Port of Indiana" to carry their goods. The people wanted a park, and through a legislative bargain, both the port (the Burns Waterway Harbor) and the national park were born.
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Lately, National Geographic has helped fund my research on toxic frogs in Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park. On a prior trip to that park, I encountered several snazzy reptiles to admire, including the aptly-named leaf tailed gecko, Uroplatus phantasticus, pictured above.
No, that brown thing in the foreground isn't a leaf—that's really the gecko's tail! This leaf mimic is soft and fleshy and feels like velvet.
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