Blue Mountains National Park

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[ December 22, 2025 ] Researchers assessing risk to national park water supplies North America
[ December 22, 2025 ] Where the wild things thrive: Finding and protecting nature’s climate change safe havens Global
[ December 19, 2025 ] What does it mean to be a new national park? Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia may soon find out North America
[ December 17, 2025 ] Republicans propose bill to restore access to historic gateway to Mount Rainier News Briefs
[ December 12, 2025 ] New park fee for foreign tourists could generate hundreds of millions News Briefs

Dargan Shelter sheltered the earliest Australians during the last Ice Age.

Human Origins: Oldest Ice Age human settlement in Australia found high up in the Blue Mountains

July 2, 2025

Archaeologists with the Australian Museum say they’ve uncovered unequivocal evidence of continued Ice Age human habitation in a cave in the Blue Mountains at high elevations, at altitudes that ancient peoples were previously thought to […]

The iconic rock formation, Three Sisters, overlook the bushfires at Mount Solitary at Blue Mountains National Park.

“Black Summer” bushfires burned down tourism in Australia

February 6, 2024

The 2019-2020 Australian “Black Summer” bushfire disaster devastated tourism and left lasting scars on the country’s economy, according to a new assessment. The bushfires resulted in billions of dollars worth of losses to Australian tourism. […]

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Blue Mountains National Park

Human Origins: Oldest Ice Age human settlement in Australia found high up in the Blue Mountains

“Black Summer” bushfires burned down tourism in Australia