Tag: national parks

"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."

The plastic is trapped in fundamental atmospheric processes and falling all over the world, making plastic rain the new acid rain.

The 2011 “Water Bottle Ban” gave national parks the allowance to prohibit the sale of plastic water bottles, which helped reduce park...

The measure is the largest public lands bill considered by Congress in a decade.

"What's happened to our park in the last 34 days is irreparable for the next 200 to 300 years."

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.

Park experts are now warning that the damage may take years to undo.

Our newly published results reveal that climate change has exposed the national parks to conditions hotter and drier than the country as a whole.

Under President Donald Trump, the Park Service has rescinded a policy aimed at preventing activities that threaten park resources and human health.

Over the past century it has become increasingly hard to protect the parks from impacts of human activities outside their boundaries.