Though hundreds of miles of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Hurricane Erin was continuing to whip into a furious tempest threatening to inundate Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout national seashores ...

A new effort to save Mazama newts, also known as Crater Lake newts, involves moving them from the only place in the world where they live.

Mount Rainier can be deadly, but death is hardly what prevents most from succeeding up the glacier-shrouded volcano. Although climbing carries inherent risks, it’s not how most deaths in the sprawling ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum hopes to enlist the public in identifying interpretive materials in the National Park System that disparage Americans past or living or which contain content that ...

President Donald Trump in his Fiscal 2026 budget proposal is calling for some units of the National Park System to be transferred to "state-level management, a suggestion that would need Congressional ...

Deformation of Earth’s surface can be very subtle. Accurately detecting how the ground moves in the Yellowstone area requires the right frame of reference.

Even a global pandemic couldn’t knock Banff National Park off the top of the list of Canada’s most visited national parks. Rouge National Urban Park saw more visitors than ever before as urbanites ...

Will aspects of Project 2025, a conservative plan for running the federal government, surface during a second Trump administration, and if so, how might it impact national parks and other federal ...

Seven years after a Texas man vanished while on a hike at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado his remains have been found.

Cuts in visitor interpretation and education, not enough money for employee pay raises or to replace jobs lost by past years' cuts, and less money for replacing worn out equipment are troubling areas ...

If you were looking for the tallest native hardwood tree in temperate North America, where might you begin? A group of dedicated volunteers from the Native Tree Society has found the answer, and it's ...

What to do with feral horses, a hot button topic across the National Park System, is being debated over Cape Hatteras National Seashore's Ocracoke ponies.