The Christmas pageant shaped by Ansel Adams returns to Yosemite's iconic Ahwahnee Hotel.

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.

A pipeline break that sent a geyser above the Colorado River has prompted more water conservation measures at Grand Canyon National Park.

Declines in wild steelhead populations have prompted the National Park Service to close the Queets River in Olympic National Park to sport fishing.