At Cape Hatteras, coastal erosion creates costly challenges for residents, tourists, and the National Park Service.

Across the National Park System, climate-change impacts are reaching into virtually all of the more than 420 units. But a 2022 study of how parks were reacting to those impacts found a lack of cohesiveness in evaluating vulnerabilities to those impacts.

Along 1,600 miles of the Eastern Seaboard, from Maine to Florida, climatological alterations are challenging the National Park Service to figure out how best to protect wildlife and their habitats, as well as historic structures, archaeological sites, modern infrastructure, landscapes, and, of course, visitors.

Though Hurricane Beryl was roughly 1,200 nautical miles from Padre Island National Seashore on Tuesday, crews already were out on the barrier island's beaches searching for Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests. Any that were found were recorded with a GPS location so, in the event the hurricane took a hard swipe at the national seashore, the nests could be relocated after the storm.