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[ December 22, 2025 ] Researchers assessing risk to national park water supplies North America
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[ 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

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

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 […]