The uncertain, hopeful future of the National Park Service
5:02am By Brian Kahn
Jonathan Jarvis is a National Park Service lifer. Starting 40 years ago as a seasonal interpretive…From Glacierless National Park to the Neverglades: Meet your future national parks
5:01am By Kate Yoder
The famous landscapes we love are changing in mostly imperceptible ways, except to the scientists…Stop a selfie, save a life: Words of advice for the modern wilderness tourist
5:01am By Samantha Lee
That poet of America’s parks, John Muir, penned numerous lines at the start of the last century…The nearest national park could be just a city block away
5:00am By Nathanael Johnson
For its first one hundred years, the National Park Service had a pretty clear agenda: preserve…Texas, keystone of the pro-life movement, sure is seeing a lot of maternal deaths
Mon 6:47pm By Eve Andrews
Texas’ maternal mortality rate nearly doubled between 2010 and 2014 — from 18.6 deaths per…Police are finally catching cars that veer too close to bicyclists
Mon 6:14pm By Kate Yoder
There’s nothing quite as alarming as an SUV veering into your personal space as you bike down a…Louisiana’s flood couldn’t have been stopped, but it didn’t have to be so devastating
Mon 5:17pm By Heather Smith
Louisiana’s Amite river basin, which flooded and destroyed 60,000 homes earlier this month, is…After 525 years, it’s time to actually listen to Native Americans
Mon 3:54pm By Bill McKibben
The center of the fight for our planet’s future shifts. But this week it’s on the Standing Rock…Teens remind NYC drivers: It’s illegal to idle your car for more than three minutes
Mon 12:12pm By Ben Adler
New York City is miserably hot and humid in August, so who can blame a driver for wanting to leave…Is my sparkling-water maker terrible for the environment?
Mon 3:07am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, My family and I are enamored of our seltzer maker. We drink copious amounts of the…“Smoke waves” from wildfires are getting worse — and getting more people sick
Aug 21, 2016, 8:44 am By John Upton
Shrouded by smoke from a fire in California’s parched San Bernardino Mountains, schools in the…This California couple uses more water than all of the homes in Los Angeles
Aug 20, 2016, 5:05 am By Josh Harkinson
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Harley-Davidson is officially a clear air outlaw
Aug 19, 2016, 6:53 pm By Heather Smith
If you’ve ever wondered why a flock of motorcycles smells like a smog bomb made love to a…EPA scolded for failing to turn in its very important ethanol homework
Aug 19, 2016, 6:14 pm By Nathanael Johnson
The Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to recalculate the environmental effects of ethanol…What happens to Rio’s stadiums after the Olympics end?
Aug 19, 2016, 4:36 pm By Katie Herzog
Long after the athletes have packed up their Speedos and the torch has gone out, the structures that…Exxon is looking for ways to slash carbon emissions
Aug 19, 2016, 3:57 pm By Katie Herzog
A new breakthrough in climate-change-fighting technology may come from, of all places … Exxon?…With a lot of money and time on your hands, you too can disturb the Arctic for fun
Aug 19, 2016, 10:49 am By Ben Adler
Melting ice in the Arctic Ocean has plenty of drawbacks, from rising sea levels to the polar vortex…McDonald’s feeble attempt to encourage walking is short-lived
Aug 18, 2016, 6:29 pm By Katie Herzog
McDonald’s recent attempt to encourage kids to get exercise beyond lifting fries to their mouths…Texas is still gunning for your reproductive rights
Aug 18, 2016, 6:08 pm By Eve Andrews
One might think that when the U.S. Supreme Court sends a clear message — like, “no,…We’ve only explored 0.0001 percent of the ocean, but that’s about to change.
Aug 18, 2016, 5:50 pm By Kate Yoder
Off the coast of Bermuda, tiny vessels are diving 1,000 feet to research something we know…
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