Why Melting Permafrost Is Turning Alaskan Streams Orange
A troubling sign of climate change are the nearly 600 miles of rivers in Alaska's Brooks Range that have been stained orange.
- By Rita Beamish - August 2nd, 2024 1:00pm
Climate Change
Another House Collapses At Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Crews were expected Tuesday afternoon to begin cleaning up the debris from an unoccupied house that collapsed into the ocean at Rodanthe, North Carolina, in Cape Hatteras National Seashore. It marked the sixth time in the past four years that the ocean has claimed a house on the seashore.
- By Compiled From N... - May 28th, 2024 2:21pm
Coastal Erosion Forces Closures At Gateway National Recreation Area
Due to extremely hazardous beach conditions, Gateway National Recreation Area in the greater New York-New Jersey area has restricted access to sections of Jacob Riis Park, the National Park Service announced Friday.
- By Compiled From N... - May 24th, 2024 4:45pm
Polling Indicates Floridians Concerned About Climate Change, Support Everglades Restoration
New polling in Florida shows strong, bipartisan support for the ongoing Everglades restoration program and efforts to mitigate climate-change impacts.
Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Disrupting Marine Ecosystem Around National Parks
A coral-killing disease spreading through the ocean waters touching a number of national parks is threatening to upend the marine ecosystem, threatening biodiversity and impacting coastal economies, according to new research from a University of Florida doctoral candidate.
- By NPT Staff - May 7th, 2024 11:22am
Struggling To Maintain Cultural Resources Against Climate Change Impacts
Wildfires, drought, sea level rise, more frequent and intense storms, and warming oceans are sometimes destroying and occasionally improving or allowing cultural resources to emerge at national park units.
- By Lori Sonken - April 28th, 2024 2:30am
Hydrothermal Deposits Record Climate Changes In Yellowstone
Yellowstone’s hydrothermal system has been powered 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for at least the last ~2 million years by the release of heat from the magmatic system in the subsurface.
- By NPT Staff - April 23rd, 2024 2:30am
Padre Island National Seashore Staff Studying Impacts Of Sea Level Rise On Turtles
How sea level rise might impact Kemp's ridley sea turtles at Padre Island National Seashore in Texas will be studied by seashore staff thanks to $153,000 in funding from the National Park Service.
- By Compiled From N... - April 22nd, 2024 2:30am
Effort To See Wolverines Back In Colorado Moving Forward
Wolverines, which, aside from a straggler that passed through Rocky Mountain National Park in 2009, have been missing from Colorado since the early 1900s, but an effort moving through the state's legislature could launch a recovery program for the ferocious carnivores.
- By Kurt Repanshek - April 21st, 2024 10:33am
The Sinagua —The People Without Water
They have been called the Sinagua – The People Without Water. Spanish explorers referred to this region as Sierra Sin Agua, “mountains without water,” and archaeologists adopted the name.
- By Barbara 'Bo' Jensen - October 1st, 2024 12:40pm
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