“Half the park is after dark.” April 5 – 12 marks International Dark Sky Week 2021, a celebration of the vast, wondrous, starry sky above us. Perhaps you are even planning a visit to a National Park Service unit that's been designated an International Dark Sky Park. This special week also emphasizes how light pollution hampers our ability to see the stars and produces harmful consequences to all living things.

A "spectacle of nature," in which the Muldrow Glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve has suddenly surged forward for the first time in more than six decades, has created a scientific window for glaciologists to better understand the park's rivers of ice. Though highly unusual, the glacier's rapid movement is not believed to be linked to climate change but rather due to the "unique nature of the structure and composition of the glacier’s ice, its surrounding rocks, and the topography it is moving through."

Seaweed and sea turtles aren't the only objects that wash ashore at Padre Island National Seashore, which is why it's good to have more than a few people lending their time to collect that which doesn't belong.

Growing up in Nova Scotia, attending a high school with an outdoor education focus, taking a sustainable forestry course that asked her to connect how clearcutting killed Atlantic salmon, and joining annual field trips to Kejimkujik National Park, Hilary Harrop-Archibald always had her eye on an eventual career with Parks Canada.