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Latest top headlines • 4 August 2026
At Hopewell Furnace NHS in Pennsylvania, historical demonstrators poured molten iron for the first time since 1883. https://buff.ly/E1escgg
Sea life in Scotland's South Arran MPA has rebounded a decade after bottom trawling was banned. https://buff.ly/hB2J704
Thirty-seven Democratic senators sent a letter blasting Trump for his latest NMon cuts in Utah. https://buff.ly/oJXkpOU
Trump's claims that recreation within Bears Ears NMon was nearly impossible, and hence the NMon needed to be cut down drastically, are contradicted by documents provided to the administration by the state of Utah prior to the decision. https://buff.ly/H9rBdMf
A USNPS analysis says that Trump's proposed DC arch with disrupt historic views across the city and beyond. The analysis is based on Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act—which Trump is trying to eviscerate. https://buff.ly/YbKTbJh
July 31 is World Ranger Day, set aside to honor protectors who sometimes pay with their lives for conservation. https://mongabay.cc/i79wLw
Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ancient geometric earthworks that has been covered by forests in the Amazon. https://buff.ly/W53F4fd
Historic preservationists are sounding the alarm over Trump's proposal to weaken Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The president of the National Trust said it would “eviscerate the preservation of our shared civic and cultural heritage in the United States.” https://buff.ly/TKH3fxY
“Southern Spain and southern France are starting to get the weather that North Africa had, and the U.K. is starting to get the weather that Spain or France had 20 years ago": Climate change is fueling devastating heat and fires in southern Europe, but the new reality is striking northern Europe, too: Cairngorms NP, a biodiversity hotspot in Scotland's Highlands, is battling a stubborn two-week-old wildfire. https://buff.ly/JOxJW4j
The mysterious deaths of 15 elephants in Amboseli NP in Kenya are being investigated. https://buff.ly/21qoiQc
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The first-ever biography of our namesake — the visionary who revolutionized management of America‘s national parks
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