National parks protect immense biodiversity, and science is providing the data and graphics to monitor and protect that biodiversity.

As monarch butterflies begin their annual spring migration from Mexico to southern Canada, they face what’s called “landscape fragmentation.” This species-at-risk needs specific habitat for food and shelter but the landscape is being lost or broken up by things like urban development, roads and industrial agriculture.

An Illinois woman died after being struck by a rock while she was climbing a ladder up to Alcove House at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Ohio has been included in the nomination of a collection of earthworks that dates back more than 1,000 years ago to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's World Heritage List.