This year is the final year of Kīlauea volcano projects funded by the Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act of 2019. This “Volcano Watch” article is about a deep study of subsurface conductivity beneath Kīlauea volcano that will reveal its subsurface magmatic plumbing. The project started within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park last summer and will be completed over the entire volcano this year.
With four prominent national parks as examples of the impacts of oil and gas development, the Coalition to Protect America's National Parks is calling on the Biden administration and Congress to better protect the National Park System from energy development.
Five units of the National Park System that ring Lake Superior hope to be able to go completely carbon-free by TK under an ambitious plan supported by the National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation.
Concern is growing for the future of a unique orchid that is a favorite of poachers after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to meet a deadline for deciding whether the flower needed Endangered Species Act protection.
More than two decades of battles over a copper and gold mine proposed to be built near Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska came to a halt as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has denied the backers' request to dump mining wastes into the headwaters of the Bristol Bay watershed.