An NPR story shows how the current turmoil in USNPS is negatively affecting scientists' work with the critically endangered Devils Hole pupfish in Death Valley NP. https://buff.ly/AvL1OdS

Australia has created Great Koala NP, a large new PA along the coast aimed at protecting this iconic species, among other threatened native species. https://buff.ly/b1MRTUM

A new study gives voice to scientists' fears that climate change linked with deforestation will, if not abated, transform the Amazonian rainforest into a degraded grassland. The good news: efforts to curb deforestation are making a difference. https://buff.ly/UVvMkSH

After a two-year hiatus, an Icelandic company will resume hunting whales this year. https://buff.ly/vutBJDu

Conservation groups are suing to reverse stop Trump from allowing commercial fishing in Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine NMon. https://buff.ly/I5yEdiU

Climate-change-driven sea level rise has made Buxton, NC, in the midst of Cape Hatteras NS, the poster child for erosion impacts on housing along the East Coasthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2026/outer-banks-falling-homes-solutions/

Burgum has canceled dozens of hunting and firearms restrictions in various units of the NP System. Some parks have pushed back. https://buff.ly/BAVt7wh

Trump is ending leases that allow bison from American Prairie Preserve, a private PA, to graze on federal grasslands. https://buff.ly/F8AQatp

DOI ended reservation systems at several popular NPs. At Yosemite NP, the overcrowding problems these systems were helping alleviate have come back quickly. https://buff.ly/KNnFpK6

A review of Trump's censorship campaign reveals a picture of centralized DOI control over NPS websites and various levels of intervention from the administration. https://buff.ly/imHA15C