Tag: national parks
A historic chance to protect America’s free-flowing rivers
“This legislation will be good news for anyone who likes clean drinking water, fish and wildlife habitat, and public lands recreation. It will protect some of the most scenic rivers we have in Oregon.”
Say goodbye to your national parks road trips?
Get your hikes and other recreation in while you can. A new study finds warming temperatures could mean big changes in how we use our public lands.
Great American Outdoors Act passes through Senate
"Passage of the Great American Outdoors Act will move us one step closer to fulfilling the LWCF’s promise and secure the future of our parks and public lands for the next generation."
‘Plastic rain’ is pouring down in national parks
The plastic is trapped in fundamental atmospheric processes and falling all over the world, making plastic rain the new acid rain.
Trump reverses water bottle ban in national parks
The 2011 “Water Bottle Ban” gave national parks the allowance to prohibit the sale of plastic water bottles, which helped reduce park...
Senate passes massive public lands conservation bill
The measure is the largest public lands bill considered by Congress in a decade.
Park rangers return to work to assess ‘irreparable’ damage as government...
"What's happened to our park in the last 34 days is irreparable for the next 200 to 300 years."
Volunteers protect our national parks during shutdown
Many national parks are open but since staff are furloughed amid the longest shutdown in U.S. history, services such as maintenance, visitor services, and law enforcement are not being performed, or are severely limited.
National parks overflow with trash, human waste as gov’t shutdown approaches...
Park experts are now warning that the damage may take years to undo.
Human-caused climate change severely exposes the US national parks
Our newly published results reveal that climate change has exposed the national parks to conditions hotter and drier than the country as a whole.
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California passes first US clothing recycling law: A bold step toward sustainability in fashion
The aim is to combat the growing environmental crisis posed by the fast fashion industry and textile waste, which has increasingly burdened the state’s landfills and ecosystem.
Trump’s false claims about Hurricane Helene response draw fire from NC newspaper and local...
The Charlotte Observer issued a pointed editorial denouncing Trump’s false claims and warning that such disinformation is hampering recovery efforts.
West Coast climate activists battle the false ‘solution’ of forest biomass
Up and down the West Coast, the burgeoning biomass boom threatens to derail hard-won progress on climate, ecosystem protection and environmental justice.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Palestine visit revealed the plain, brutal truth of apartheid
His new book, The Message, is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States.
Ocean temperatures 800 times more likely due to climate crisis fuel Hurricane Milton’s explosive...
According to Climate Central, a research organization specializing in climate impacts, the record-breaking sea temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico provided the fuel that allowed Hurricane Milton to intensify at an unprecedented pace.