The US hosts two of the world’s most famous volcanic systems: Yellowstone and Hawaiʻi. These systems a well known for producing large volumes of magma through time and leaving chains of volcanic features in their wake, although they do so in very different ways.

The NPS wins a victory in court over its decision to go cashless.

On March 1, 2025, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will begin construction to channelize the river mile -12 slough to prevent reproduction of small mouth bass in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

Helen Dhue, a friendly voice and face ready to great visitors at Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park, was among the 1,000 National Park Service employees fired on Valentine's Day.

Sometimes, it takes a monumental event to spur Congress into establishing a national park. Such a significant event, or rather, series of events, occurred between 1914 and 1915 when Lassen Peak in northern California belched billowing black mushroom clouds of steam, ash, and hot rocks onto the landscape as far as 200 miles (322 kilometers) from the summit.

Elon Musk, urged by President Donald Trump to "be more aggressive" in driving a reduction in federal employment, has told National Park Service workers to justify their positions in weekly emails or resign.

Even if you didn't visit it yourself, lakes near you in a national park may accumulate the sunscreen you slathered on.

Go past the visitor center and the restrooms and leave the parking area, and you'll enter a realm of the National Park Service that isn't in the public's eye but which is being hit hard and disrupted by the Trump administration's hatchet approach to shrinking federal government.

Earlier this week I did something I thought I would never in my lifetime have to do. I traveled to my former workplace, Rocky Mountain National Park’s Beaver Meadows entrance, the gateway to one of the most magnificent places on earth, to protest.

A few members of Congress are starting to speak out against the indiscriminate firings of some 2,300 Interior Department employees, including 1,000 from the National Park Service.

In another move to "reduce the federal bureaucracy," President Trump has ordered the Presidio Trust at Golden Gate National Recreation Area to reduce its presence to the "minimum presence." Whether that would save the federal government any money is questionable, as the Trust says it hasn't received any annual federal appropriations since 2013.

President Donald Trump's administration is moving to defang the National Environmental Policy Act that long has been viewed as the "Magna Carta" of the United State's environmental laws.

While the Trump administration is determined to "drill, baby, drill," for new energy reserves, Westerners want elected officials to prioritize conservation over development of public lands, according to the latest Conservation in the West poll.

The Yellowstone Seismic Network is designed to record ground shaking due to earthquakes. But earthquakes aren’t the only things that rattle the ground in Yellowstone!

A new service hopes to take the financial worry out of calling for rescue when you really need it.

In the spring of 2025, fire crews from Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will carry out prescribed burns.

The Alaskan Supreme Court has ruled that Alaskans who like viewing bears in the wild have the legal grounds to sue the state over a plan to cull the animals.

Senator Lisa Murkowski has introduced a bill to formally change the name of North America's highest peak back to Denali

Bison, pronghorn, prairie dogs, and the third longest cave in the United States. You’ll find all this and more when you visit Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota, where there is as much to see and do above ground as there is below.

It was a great week at the Interior Department: the Gulf of America was crowned, grazing fees on public lands remain absurdly low, and U.S. Geological Survey staff helped rescue cold-stunned sea turtles in Florida.