A national park will refer to its lakes in Welsh only after more than 200 names were standardised.
Some lakes in Eryri National Park are also known by English names - Llyn Tegid is sometimes known as Lake Bala and Llyn Bochlwyd as Lake Australia.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67431789
HOPKINS – Congaree National Park will close for 24 hours beginning the evening of Nov. 15 while staffers hunt for wild hogs, some of which have gotten too close to human visitors.
The invasive species has long wreaked ecological havoc on Congaree vegetation and pathways, but recent reports add another concern for park managers. Some hogs have become comfortable hanging around where people are, posing a higher risk to park visitors.
https://www.postandcourier.com/columbia/congaree-national-park-to-close-for-24-hours-for-hunt-to-remove-invasive-wild-hogs/article_b9dc30b0-83ce-11ee-b031-af55823ac6aa.html
Intact forests play a vital role in tackling the climate crisis by absorbing and storing carbon. Still, there’s uncertainty around their true carbon-capturing potential, and previous efforts to quantify it have sparked controversy. A study published this week in Nature provides what its authors say is an updated estimate of the “huge” potential of forests.
The research, led by the Crowther Lab at ETH Zürich and co-authored by more than 200 scientists across the globe, estimated that protecting and restoring forests could capture 226 billion metric tons (GT) of carbon from the atmosphere. This equals around one-third of excess emissions since industrialization began.
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/forests-hold-massive-carbon-storage-potential-if-we-cut-emissions/
