Hawaii's 90-foot Hōlei Sea Arch, formed about 550 years ago, fell into the Pacific between 23 and 27 September, the National Park Service says. No one knows the exact moment, so the case against Tropical Storm Nolo rests on timing.
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A thought experiment published by The Conversation walks a Yellowstone super-eruption from the first earthquake swarm to a VEI 8 blast, and the timeline it lays out hands monitoring staff two months of ambiguous signals.
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A Frontiers in Conservation Science analysis of Parks Canada conflict records from 2010 to 2023 puts elk at 62 percent, well ahead of grizzlies and black bears, with townsites the setting that concentrates them.
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The rainfall that killed two hikers on 29 August sat in a 2-to-4-percent tail, but the ground it landed on had been primed for a year by the Dragon Bravo Fire and a severe August drought, and that is the part trip planners can see coming.
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The emergency application in National Park Service v. National Trust for Historic Preservation asks who may sue over federal construction. The answer prices litigation risk far beyond one demolition.
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Rangers are objecting to plate readers at Yosemite and elsewhere, and an internal Park Service letter describes Verkada cameras filling the license plate gap where Flock is absent.
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