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 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.

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 ...

The reef is approximately 10,000 years old, having developed when sea levels rose following the last Ice Age. But its building blocks date back some 200,000 years to when sandbars in what are now the ...

Grand Canyon National Park will reopen a portion of the North Kaibab Trail on Wednesday, March 4, 2026.

The National Park Service is now accepting applications for noncommercial river trip permits to raft the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park.

Stretching nearly 350 miles and forming a major part of both Biscayne and Dry Tortugas national parks, the Florida Reef is the only coral barrier reef in the continental United States and the ...

A new digital StoryMap is revealing the fascinating contributions of the Civilian Conservation Corps at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.