A total solar eclipse will cross a swath of the United States from Maine to Texas next week, and millions of Americans are traveling to state parks to view the spectacle. State parks managers say […]
The federal government has passed a spending package that will avert a national park system shutdown in the United States, but critics say the system will still be left badly underfunded. The US Congress passed […]
Grizzly bears will likely once again roam the Pacific Northwest’s Cascade Range. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is zeroing in on a plan to achieve a viable population of 200 wild grizzly bears […]
Michigan is rolling out a major state park revitalization campaign, but steep inflation is forcing the state’s park officials to drastically scale back their plans. The state’s Department of Natural Resources is energized by an […]
Another solar eclipse will cross North America next month, and public parks along the eclipse’s path are busy taking reservations, expecting record attendance to see the event. On April 8, NASA says a total solar […]
A stretch of Japanese mountains terminating at an ocean promontory is being upgraded to a national park, but there’s an ongoing dispute over what to name it. Hidaka-sanmyaku Erimo Quasi-National Park is a protected area […]
In an award-winning seven-minute video, Haleakala National Park biologist Christopher Warren starkly lays out what’s at stake for some of Maui’s last surviving bird species. “We know there are fewer than 200 kiwikiu left in […]
The world’s largest reef system is suffering from a massive coral bleaching event over an “extensive” area, Australian authorities are now reporting. Ocean scientists and conservationists say they are closely monitoring a coral bleaching outbreak hitting large sections of Australia’s Great […]
The Falkland Islands is moving forward with plans to set up its very first national park. Yesterday, the government of the remote United Kingdom territory published a new draft policy paper outlining its plans to […]
America’s newest national park commemorates a crime committed against Japanese-American citizens during the upheaval of global war. February 19 is the Day of Remembrance of Japanese Incarceration During World War II. To mark the occasion, the […]
Paleontologists say they’ve just confirmed the past existence of two new species of prehistoric sharks from fossils unearthed at Mammoth Cave National Park. Fossil teeth and cartilage collected from a section of the famous cave […]
For years, archaeologists said we can trace the beginnings of human settlement in the Americas to at least 12,000 years ago. That’s about when wanderers from Asia first crossed the Bering Land Bridge into North […]
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