Officials are planning a five-day closure for most of Yosemite National Park because they’re worried melting snow will cause flooding.

While you’re likely aware that Bear Grylls has had a robust career in television and media, you may not know just how much success he’s had in publishing. With over 40 books in his name, he has written best-selling books on self-help, healthy living – and even several inspiring and entertaining books for young readers.    Here [...]

The numbers are in and they’re huge: In 2022, the National Park Service recorded 312 million visits—more than in 2021 and nearly as many as they did in the pre-pandemic years of 2018 and 2019. According to the latest stats release from NPS, a dozen individual parks broke their all-time visitation records last year, too. [...]

It’s been 53 years since the very first Earth Day in 1970. Since then, we’ve seen impressive feats, such as the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the creation of the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and the Endangered Species Act.  To celebrate Earth Day, we collected 10 interesting and amazing facts [...]

A rare baby horse born in England is bringing hope to a wildlife reintroduction program in Mongolia.  Luujin, a Przewalski’s horse, was born last week at the Whipsnade Zoo in England. The zoo is working with scientists in Mongolia to save the species, which is considered the last of the “truly wild” horses in the [...]

Parts of the West have gotten record snowfall this winter, which means the mountains in some places are piled high with more snow than we’ve ever recorded. Statewide, California has 237 percent of the snowpack it usually does at this time of year, according to the state’s Department of Water Resources.  And that means something [...]

It may look like a combination of a starfish, sea anemone and an octopus – but this is a feather star.  Feather stars are one of 550 living crinoid marine invertebrates in our oceans, most frequently found in the Indian Ocean. Though they could easily be mistaken for plants, these animals are known as echinoderms; part [...]

Scottish ultra marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski was disqualified for riding in a car for 2.5 miles of the 50-mile race. 

The volcanic hot springs of Italy are harboring more than just a great vacation destination. According to a recent scientific expedition, they might be hiding the key to a clever way to clean up our carbon footprint.  In the Baia de Levante, off the coast of the island of Vulcano, researchers discovered a kind of [...]

Like the other elephants at the Berlin Zoo, Pang Pha likes to eat bananas. Unlike the others though, she prefers her bananas to be peeled – and she’s figured out how to peel them herself. Even more curious is that the middle aged elephant seems to know exactly when a banana is at its ripest, and [...]