Just days after the NPS began removing a controversial fence separating elk from cattle in Point Reyes National Seashore, a federal judge blocked the fence's removal.
President Joe Biden on Monday signed a presidential proclamation establishing the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, as the 432nd site in the National Park System.
The climate crisis receives much coverage these days, mostly focused on extreme weather, sea level rise, and dislocation of people by climate-related stresses like drought and wildfire. Declining polar ice and its impact on polar bears gets some coverage, bringing the Arctic into the story, but few of us understand the scope of the impact climate change is having above the Arctic Circle or why we should be concerned about what is happening up there.