47 h. ago Dorothy Waugh’s epic 1930s national park posters – in pictures

Between 1934 and 1936, artist Dorothy Waugh was commissioned to create 17 posters for the National Park Service, a groundbreaking opportunity for a female designer at the time. Her designs, which were both accessible and avant-garde, are being celebrated in an exhibition for the first time at New York’s Poster House. Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters is on display until 22 February 2026 Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Dorothy Waugh’s epic 1930s US national park posters – in pictures

Between 1934 and 1936, artist Dorothy Waugh was commissioned to create 17 posters for the National Park Service, a groundbreaking opportunity for a female designer at the time. Her designs, which were both accessible and avant-garde, are being celebrated in an exhibition for the first time at New York’s Poster House. Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters is on display until 22 February 2026 Continue reading...

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58 h. ago How examination of animal genitals helped scientists discover seven new species

These previously unknown species were found during fieldwork in a Ugandan rainforest

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59 h. ago Beautiful Spanish islands that 'rival' the Caribbean and are nothing like Majorca or Tenerife

The Cies Islands, a short boat ride from the city of Vigo in northwest Spain, are part of the UNESCO-recognised Atlantic Islands National Park, a natural environment that makes it an exceptional spot for observing wildlife

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68 h. ago Villagers' fury over 'piggy tourists' who are harassing New Forest pigs to take selfies for likes on social media

The over 600 pigs who roam freely in the New Forest National Park are being put at risk by visitors who 'pin the animals against hedges' and shove 'cameras within three inches of their snouts'.

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3 d. ago Tribes that restored buffalo are killing some to feed people because of the shutdown

A pending deal to end the government shutdown is too late for about 30 bison on the Fort Peck reservation in northern Montana

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3 d. ago I found a cosy inn stay with breakfast in a beautiful village in Eryri National Park for just £85

This snug Inn is located in the picturesque village of Beddgelert, and you can stay there for an absolute steal this winter.

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4 d. ago Chilling mistake made by couple killed by bear as entire horror caught on camera

Despite warnings from friends and family, Timothy Treadwell kept travelling to Alaska’s Katmai National Park to live among grizzlies - where he and his girlfriend were brutally killed

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4 d. ago Idiot tourists narrowly avoid being gored by bison in Yellowstone

Heart-pounding video shows the pair narrowly avoided disaster despite being urged to leave the area.

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4 d. ago Everyday volunteers are providing stopgap services during the shutdown in a show of community power

Everyday people are improvising stopgap efforts to support their communities through the longest government shutdown in U.S. history

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5 d. ago Major tourist train in Wales blasted for being 'leaky' and having 'wet seats'

Eryri National Park in North Wales is home to the country's highest mountain, Yr Wyddfa, also known as Mount Snowdon, seeing more than 100,000 visitors per month in summer.

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5 d. ago Woman goes hiking in US national park and finds something sinister hidden under rocks

A woman shared an eerie moment from her hike as she spotted something 'creepy' which watched her from under the rocks. Now she shared the experience in a TikTok post

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6 d. ago A new start after 60: I found my feet in midlife, became a park ranger at 85 – and retired happily at 100

At 104, Betty Reid Soskin has had the most extraordinary life, from protest singing to civil rights activism to meeting the Obamas. She reflects on what it takes to stay strong and keep goingBetty Reid Soskin was 92 when she first went viral and became, in effect, a rock star of the National Park Service. She was the oldest full-time national park ranger in the US – this was back in 2013; she’d become a ranger at 85 – but she had been furloughed along with 800,000 other federal employees during the government shutdown. News channels flocked to interview her. She was aggrieved not to be working, she told them; she had a job to do.“In a funny way, I suppose that started lots of things,” Soskin says. Her memoir, Sign My Name to Freedom, was published in 2018, and a documentary about her work, No Time to Waste, was released in 2020. Another film is in the works. Barack Obama called her “profoundly inspiring”. Annie Leibovitz photographed her. Glamour magazine named her woman of the year...

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6 d. ago Hikers devastated as iconic rocks at Arches National Park are vandalized with graffiti and toilet paper

Horrified hikers have shared photographs of the destruction on the red rock vistas in the popular beauty spot, while park rangers are furloughed or forced to stay home.

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1 week ago ‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate

In The White House Effect, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisisIn 1988, the United States entered into its worst drought since the Dust Bowl. Crops withered in fields nationwide, part of an estimated $60bn in damage ($160bn in 2025). Dust storms swept the midwest and northern Great Plains. Cities instituted water restrictions. That summer, unrelentingly hot temperatures killed between 5,000 and 10,000 people, and Yellowstone national park suffered the worst wildfire in its history.Amid the disaster, George HW Bush, then Ronald Reagan’s vice-president, met with farmers in Michigan reeling from crop losses. Bush, the Republican candidate for president, consoled them: if elected, he would be the environmental president. He acknowledged the reality of intensifying heatwaves – the “greenhouse effect”, to use the scientific parlance of the day – with blunt clarity: the burning of fossil fuels contr...

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1 week ago Trump administration considers revoking ban on oil and gas development near Chaco historical park

The Trump administration is initiating formal meetings with Native American tribes in the southwestern U.S. as it considers revoking a 20-year ban of oil and gas development across of hundreds of square miles of federal land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park

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1 week ago Hiking with the wildlife author who studies Yosemite’s high peaks: ‘These animals are equal to us’

Inspired by childhood encyclopedias and Jane Goodall, Beth Pratt writes about the more than 150 species in the national park – and transports readers to a rarefied worldA shrill call was followed by a flash of movement through a pile of boulders on a high country slope in Yosemite national park. “Hello, Sophie!” Beth Pratt responded to the round, feisty pika who had briefly emerged to pose defiantly in the sun.Pratt, a conservation leader and wildlife advocate, has spent more than a decade observing the tiny mammals and the other inhabitants of these serene granite domes and the alpine meadows they overlook, which gleamed gold on a crisp afternoon in mid-October. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago What links Leonora Carrington, Steve McQueen and Leon Trotsky? The Saturday quiz

From State of Play and The Hack to Tilly Norwood and The Velvet Sundown, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 Which media giant began in 1997 as a DVD rental service?2 Which Hindu god is often depicted holding a bowl of sweets?3 #BalanceTonPorc was the French counterpart of which movement?4 Which fruit frequently contains a dead wasp?5 In what Asian language does “one, two” sound like “itchy knee”?6 Slugworth, Prodnose and Fickelgruber were whose commercial rivals?7 What competition does Alaska’s Katmai national park hold each autumn?8 Cornwall in 1337 was the first English creation of what?What links: 9 Actor Tilly Norwood; band The Velvet Sundown; Guess advert model in Vogue?10 Anne, 1987; Mary, 1932; Louise, 1905; Victoria, 1841?11 Barbados; Britannia; Manchester United; Maserati; US Navy Seals?12 Saint Augustine; Jean-Jaques Rousseau; Robin Askwith; Usher?13 John Candy; Leonora Carrington; Marty Feldman; Steve McQueen; Leon Trotsky?14 After Life; Field of Blood; Lou Grant...

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2 w. ago How mountaineer Jim Morrison made the first skiing descent of Everest's most dangerous route

Mountaineer Jim Morrison has skied the last un-skied route on Mount Everest

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2 w. ago From Steel City to Cottonopolis: a new walking trail through a post

The nostalgic Steel Cotton Rail Trail between Sheffield and Manchester has 14 day-length sections, with walks for urban explorers and summit-bagging hikers alikeThe Pride of Cumbria train carried me out of Piccadilly station and, eventually, beyond built-up Manchester. After Marple, everything turned green as the valleys narrowed. It was a classic northern autumn day: the clouds were low, the mizzle and mist were closing in and the world was grey-filtered but for the glow of dead leaves all around.South-east of Manchester is a bit of an unknown for me. Between the city and the Derbyshire borough of High Peak, you don’t quite enter national park territory, but it’s nonetheless a charming and eye-calming landscape. The Mancunian Kinder Scout trespassers of 1932 probably came this way, as do Pennine Way-farers bound for Edale. But the region is also post-industrial and close to conurbations. The Steel Cotton Rail Trail, which officially launched earlier this month after several years o...

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