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Month: January 2025

Areas in and around the Antarctic Peninsula are becoming greening, including Cuverville Island.
Global

New dataset map tracks life on Antarctica’s ice-free zones

January 30, 2025

Scientists now have a new tool to track Antarctica’s changing biodiversity. Still a fragile ecosystem, global warming is seeing vegetation rapidly expanding on the Antarctic Peninsula. Though famous as a perennially frozen landmass, much of […]

Ngorongoro Conservation Area at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Africa and Middle East

Human Origins: Climate adaptation linked to early human ancestor

January 24, 2025

The story of humanity’s emergence from Africa is ancient, yet relatively brief compared to the antiquity of Earth and all life found on it. Our planet is approximately 4.5 billion years old. Life is believed […]

Shanidar Cave and other locales in the Zagros Mountains were once home to the first genetically distinct Homo sapiens to venture out of Africa.
Africa and Middle East

Humanity’s “Out of Africa” moment encoded in our DNA

January 24, 2025

Spanning hundreds of miles across Iran’s west, with its northern edges extending into Iraqi Kurdistan, the Zagros Mountains are popular with explorers and provide sustenance for the many villages, farms, and pastoralists that call the […]

A view from the heart of Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, Texas.
North America

Texas’ Enchanted Rock to double in size

January 21, 2025

One of Texas’ most popular state parks is about to double in size. The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department has announced that it has purchased over 3,000 acres of land next to Enchanted Rock State […]

Elephants at a watering hole in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
Africa and Middle East

Rising temperatures are disrupting elephant migrations in African national park

January 20, 2025

A new research paper claims that hotter and drier days are compelling Zimbabwe’s elephants to seek shelter further south. The new study reveals how climate change impacts even the world’s largest land mammals. Elephants naturally […]

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News Briefs

Concerns raised as Illinois lawmakers approve returning land to Native American tribe

January 13, 2025

A measure that transfers an Illinois state park to a Native American tribe is being criticized as a Democratic land grab.  Before adjourning the 103rd Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois House took up Senate Bill 867 that […]

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News Briefs

California fire disaster forces dozens of state parks to close; arson suspect arrested

January 13, 2025

The wildfires devastating California have forced the full and partial closure of dozens of state parks. Meanwhile, authorities announced the arrest of one individual suspected of carrying out arson at a state park in the […]

The Pawnee Buttes are the defining feature of the Pawnee National Grassland in northeastern Colorado.
North America

America’s national grasslands dodge controversy, but for how much longer?

January 12, 2025

The United States’ network of federally managed grasslands has largely stayed out of the headlines as environmental battles rage elsewhere. But that could soon change. Pawnee National Grassland is one place to keep an eye […]

Tourists work their way to the summit of Diamond Head on Oahu.
North America

Diamond Head dreams of a makeover

January 12, 2025

Hawaii’s most popular state park is showing its age. State officials have a grand plan to upgrade it, if only they had the money. Diamond Head State Monument is the iconic symbol of the Aloha […]

Remnants of a former reservoir still stand at Castlewood Canyon State Park, Colorado.
North America

Colorado’s latest state park management plan could be a model for the nation

January 12, 2025

A pleasant but obscure state park in Colorado is revamping its 33-year-old management plan, and park managers everywhere should take notice. Castlewood Canyon State Park is located about midway between Denver and Colorado Springs. Once […]

A cog railroad takes tourists to the summit of Pikes Peak.
North America

Colorado to expand recreation opportunities on “America’s Mountain”

January 12, 2025

Authorities in Colorado want to develop more ways for people to have fun in and around Pikes Peak. The iconic mountain that dominates the western horizon from Colorado Springs is technically part of the federal […]

Davies Reef at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia..
Oceania

Major shifts in fish species confirmed at the Great Barrier Reef

January 12, 2025

A new international study shows that the composition of species inhabiting the Great Barrier Reef has changed considerably from just a few decades ago. The changes are being attributed mainly to climate change and other […]

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