Air pollution and climate change impacts can have outsized effects on the National Park System, as well as lesser noticed but just as concerning effects. But are those impacts spread across the entire park system, or clustered around a few?

British military history has surfaced at Dry Tortugas National Park, where archaeologists have found the remains of the HMS Tyer, an 18th century warship that ran aground on reefs in 1742

Seven national park sites, including Cape Cod National Seashore, were recently selected for a collective $800,000 in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to invest in climate restoration and resilience projects over the next decade. The funding will allow National Park Service scientists to study seagrass meadow decline and identify strategies for regrowth in national parks along the East Coast. Cape Cod National Seashore will receive $112,000 of that collective funding.

The National Park Service is preparing for a three-year, $113 million rehabilitation of the seawalls around the Tidal Basin and along the Potomac River through West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. This critical investment will ensure the park is able to protect some of the nation’s most iconic memorials and the Japanese flowering cherry trees from the immediate threats of failing infrastructure and rising sea levels for the next 100 years.