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Drone Drowns In Yellowstone Hot Spring
James St. John, via Wikimedia Commons According to the National Park Service, a tourist crashed a camera-equipped drone into Grand Prismatic Spring, the park’s largest geothermal hot spring. In May,...
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A Map Of America’s Noise Levels
If you’re looking for a quiet getaway, you might take a bit of very old advice and head for the west. This map, showing the quietest places in the contiguous United States, was presented at the annual...
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Man Tasered In National Park For Flying Toy Drone
How, exactly, are we going to protect the environment from robots? Last June, the National Park Service banned all drones from national parks. Shortly thereafter, a tourist crashed a quadcopter into...
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America Might Get Its First New Marine Sanctuaries In 15 Years
The wreck of the Benzonia in Mallows Bay. Don Shomette As the world becomes increasingly connected by trains, planes, automobiles, and massive boats, governments and activists are increasingly looking...
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Melting Glaciers are Shaking the Earth Under Our Feet
A 4,000-foot-high mountainside collapsed in Glacier Bay National Park this week in a massive landslide that spread debris for miles across the glacier below. It was a powerful reminder of the...
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Republican Party Wants To Privatize Public Land
The National Park Service protects the places that define America, from the Grand Canyon’s mile-high red walls and the Rocky Mountains’ snow-dusted crags, down to Minute Man in Massachusetts, home of...
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While Preserved for Generations, Yellowstone is Not Protected From a Changing...
Elk National Elk Refuge. Jackson Hole, Wyoming MM8326 Dawn at Schwabachers Landing. Grand and other Tetons behind. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Charlie Hamilton James When considering how to...
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Yellowstone: A Journey Through America’s Wild Heart
No longer lone, an adopted member of the Phantom Springs wolf pack stands tall in Grand Teton National Park. After an absence of about 70 years, wolves returned to the park in 1998, moving down from...
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Now You Can Explore The National Parks In Ranger-Guided 360 Degree Tours
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_g80FXA-0 Just in time for the National Park Service’s 100th birthday Google has released a new interactive project that takes viewers into...
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Astronaut Jeff Williams Celebrates The National Parks On The ISS
Mount St. Helens, best known for its dramatic eruption in 1980 is now the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument located in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Williams wrote: "Mount St. Helens...
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In photos: 100 years of Denali National Park
Fear the wind: Three men roped up on snowshoes attempt to cross the Muldrow Glacier. Circa 1944. Denali National Park Museum Collection, DENA 1568 Many know Denali as the tallest peak in North...
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Humans are infecting wild lands with our noises
“Do you know that the ears of the whale are sacred? Because the ears are the entrance to its soul,” said the whaling captain. It was 1979 and Christopher Clark, a young researcher doing field work...
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#PopSciLovesNature and so do you
Jason Lederman / Popular Science In honor of Nature Photography Day, we put together a gallery featuring the PopSci staff’s favorite pictures we’ve taken during adventures in the Great Outdoors. And...
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Seven gorgeous national parks where you can watch the August eclipse
The painted hills. NPS The 2017 solar eclipse is just weeks away from sweeping the nation. Many folks are flocking to the few big cities on the phenomenon’s path of totality, but why spend loads on...
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If we shrink national monuments, science will suffer
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology is suing to defend Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments in Utah. They’re trying to protect more than 400 research sites, where scientists...
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A park ranger’s guide to visiting national parks during a government shutdown
James St. John, via Wikimedia Commons During a government shutdown—when Congress fails to pass a budget that keeps large parts of the government running—rangers everywhere chain the gates of their...
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A pack of wolves is about to save this national park
Only two wolves remain on Isle Royale. They'll soon get company. National Park Service/ Rolf Peterson When a Chicago man brought his sick dog on a fishing trip to Isle Royale National Park, he set off...
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The best National Parks for photographers
Sunset at Desert View Point, Grand Canyon. Dean Fikar via Getty Images Tunnel view in Yosemite National Park Naris Visitsin via Getty Images This story was originally published on PopPhoto.com....
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The weirdest things we learned this week: Lady Liberty’s big secret, the...
It's electric. DepositPhotos What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s newest podcast. The Weirdest...
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Some national parks won’t recover from the government shutdown for decades
Flickr user weesam2010 Photos of felled Joshua trees went viral last week, a casualty of the government shutdown and the related lack of oversight in the eponymous national park. Other arid lands have...
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