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Use Of Fort McHenry For Political Campaign Criticized By Coalition To Protect America's National Parks

Use of Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine as a backdrop for Vice President Mike Pence's address to the Republican National Convention this week drew criticism from the Coalition to Protect America's National Parks.

Why Trust Science?

Never in the history of science has asking the question “Why Trust Science?” been more important than in 2020 because science denial in the face of climate change, pandemics, and the loss of biodiversity, among other challenges facing the world, threatens lives and the future of human communities across the globe.

UPDATE | Grand Canyon's Prehistoric Past Appears In 313-Million-Year-Old Tracks

A new chapter to Grand Canyon National Park's geologic past has come to light in the unique form of two sets of fossilized tracks more than 300 million years old that are lying in view of any hiker on the Bright Angel Trail. Those tracks, according to paleontologists, "are by far the oldest vertebrate tracks in Grand Canyon."