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National Park Service And Illuminating Engineering Society To Develop Night Sky-Friendly Lighting Standards

What better way to celebrate International Dark Sky Week than with and announcement that the National Park Service is teaming up with Illuminating Engineering Society to develop night sky-friendly lighting standards that will improve outdoor lighting in national parks without affecting your ability to stargaze.

Celebrate International Dark Sky Week In A National Park

“Half the park is after dark.” April 5 – 12 marks International Dark Sky Week 2021, a celebration of the vast, wondrous, starry sky above us. Perhaps you are even planning a visit to a National Park Service unit that's been designated an International Dark Sky Park. This special week also emphasizes how light pollution hampers our ability to see the stars and produces harmful consequences to all living things.

Denali's Muldrow Glacier Currently Experiencing An Historic Surge Event

A "spectacle of nature," in which the Muldrow Glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve has suddenly surged forward for the first time in more than six decades, has created a scientific window for glaciologists to better understand the park's rivers of ice. Though highly unusual, the glacier's rapid movement is not believed to be linked to climate change but rather due to the "unique nature of the structure and composition of the glacier’s ice, its surrounding rocks, and the topography it is moving through."

Climate-Change Predicted To Reroute An Alaskan River At Glacier Bay National Park

A warming climate is expected to reroute an Alaskan river at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska, shifting its outlet to the Pacific Ocean by more than 17 miles and, in the process, upsetting the local economy tied to commercial, subsistence, and sport fishing, as well as rafting.