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 ...

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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 ...

An updated map indicates that the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol could be planning a border wall through Big Bend National Park in Texas.

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.

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 ...

A lawsuit challenging the fees users must pay on recreation.gov to reserve campsites, climb mountains, and paddle rivers has been withdrawn without explanation by the plaintffs.

It was a year ago when a Navy pilot on a training run through a canyon on the west side of Death Valley National Park was killed in a crash that also injured several visitors who had come to watch the ...

Charleston, South Carolina, was North America’s main port of entry for African slaves, and hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children were quarantined at Sullivan’s Island before being passed ...