Ninety-five percent of Biscayne National Park is covered by water and only has one mile (1.61 kilometers) of land-based ...

America250 has unveiled the design and initial contents of “America’s Time Capsule,” a vessel to be buried at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia on July 4, 2026 and remain sealed ...

Research shows that when national park visitors are educated on the benefits of keeping campsites clean, their behavior improves. The finding came from researchers from two universities, who developed ...

The 250th birthday of the United States is a date to celebrate nationally, but Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility wants to know whether the Trump administration is leveraging that event ...

The Center for Biological Diversity has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to designate critical habitat for wolverines in a timely manner.

Though prized for the more than $6 billion it generates annually through tourism, the Florida Reef is ailing, impacted by pollution, commercial fishing, and climate change.

For centuries, the Lakota people have called this area “mako sica,” literally “bad lands.” The French fur trappers were similarly uncomplimentary about this landscape, calling it les mauvaises terres ...

A power outage impacting the SCADA system at the Havasupai Gardens pumphouse has led Grand Canyon National Park to put water conservation measures in place on the South Rim.

Rough History Haleakalā silversword — or ‘ahinahina, a reference to its silvery gray sheen — is one of around 30 endemic species from the “silversword alliance” believed to have descended from a ...

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The nomination of a top officer of national park concessionaire Delaware North Companies (DNC) to head the National Park Service drew criticism and concern Thursday.

The Florida Reef supports more than 1,400 species of plants and animals along its 350 miles, including many corals, turtles and fish that are designated as threatened or endangered on the federal ...