The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across nearly 23 million acres of northern Alaska. It’s called the National Petroleum Reserve ...

Mariah Meek, Michigan State University The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and ...

Trump's order instructs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to "develop a strategy" to increase entrance and pass fees at national ...

New historical markers have been placed at the Hassenplug Covered Bridge in Mifflinburg. The Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society of Pennsylvania and the borough of Mifflinburg recently installed the ...

As wildfires worsen across the U.S., job uncertainty is combining with a growing mental health crisis and threatening the ...

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Environmental organizations have described the provisions as paving the way for corporations to restrict 200 million acres of ...

President Donald Trump, whose administration has worked to shrink the National Park Service workforce and slash its funding, ...

The Arctic is undergoing profound environmental shifts, marked by unprecedented warming and ecosystem changes. A critical ...

Five months after the intoduction of legislation to arrange for President Donald Trump's face to be added onto Mount Rushmore ...

Caribou, migrating birds and many other types of wildlife rely on this expanse of wetlands and tundra. Humanity and the ...

Much like the blazing infernos that he battled for more than three decades, Ryan “Tedd” Swartz vividly recalls the day a ...