5 h. ago £10m in fines paid by water firms funds restoration of sewage

Fifty-one projects have won funding, including restoring riverbeds in Exmoor National Park and tackling septic tank spills into Windermere.

Economics

5 h. ago Influencer dies on live stream while climbing infamous 3,000ft 'El Capitan'

A popular climbing influencer has fallen to his death while live streaming his climb of the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California as viewers watched on

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6 h. ago Climbing star Balin Miller dies on livestream after plummeting 3000ft down Yosemite

Climbing influencer Balin Miller, 23, fell to his death as he was scaling El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, an enormous sheer granite rock face of approximately 3,000 feet.

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7 h. ago Balin Miller: Climbing star dies after plummeting down Yosemite during livestream

Climbing influencer Balin Miller, 23, fell to his death on Wednesday as he was scaling El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, an enormous sheer granite rock face of approximately 3,000 feet

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11 h. ago Fans in shock as climbing influencer dies during livestream after fall from Yosemite's El Capitan

Balin Miller, a 23-year-old climbing influencer, died while live-streaming himself climbing El Capitan, a famous vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park.

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17 h. ago Fundraising groups step up to help reopen national park sites and welcome visitors

One of Mississippi’s most-visited cultural attractions has reopened in the midst of the government shutdown, thanks to funding from a nonprofit group

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17 h. ago Alaskan climbing star dies in fall from Yosemite's El Capitan

A popular Alaskan climber fell to his death from Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan

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46 h. ago National parks will remain 'generally' open during the shutdown, but Liberty Bell doors are closed

Crowds of people loaded onto boats to tour the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Wednesday morning with no immediate signs of the government shutdown that is triggering the furlough of about two-thirds of National Park Service employees

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58 h. ago 5 homes collapse into the surf of the Outer Banks as hurricanes rumble in Atlantic

Five unoccupied houses along North Carolina’s Outer Banks have collapsed into the ocean

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61 h. ago ‘Dominant on the river’: 32 Chunk crowned champion in ‘biggest Fat Bear Week yet’

Brown bear’s nearly 100,000 votes leads him to victory despite suffering for most of season with broken jaw“The merely chubby have been winnowed away,” a naturalist intoned. “We are left with a clash of titans.”After a record-breaking week of public voting, Katmai national park and preserve in Alaska has announced the winner of its “biggest Fat Bear Week yet”. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Police launch manhunt after woman, 32, raped at Loch Lomond National Park

Detectives are appealing for information following the serious sexual assault at a Scottish national park. Police Scotland have launched a manhunt to find the suspect

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67 h. ago Woman raped at Loch Lomond beauty spot as police launch manhunt

Detectives are appealing for information following the serious sexual assault at a Scottish national park with officers now "doing everything we can to trace the man"

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67 h. ago Woman, 32, in horror Loch Lomond rape as police launch manhunt

Detectives are appealing for information following the serious sexual assault at a Scottish national park with officers now "doing everything we can to trace the man"

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69 h. ago Romanian migrants face deportation after Home Office raid: 16 people arrested for 'working illegally on a solar farm'

Sixteen Romanian nationals have been arrested in a car park in Wiltshire during a Home Office raid for 'working illegally'.

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3 d. ago Scottish walk travels through stunning National Park home to breathtaking views

The trail passes Glen Finglas Reservoir, dense woodlands, and the windswept Glen Meann, offering views, streams, wildlife, and historic features along the way.

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3 d. ago Deserted islands, seagrass meadows and endless ocean: kayaking in Sweden’s new marine national park

In Nämdöskärgården, in the Stockholm archipelago, low-impact tourism is helping visitors appreciate the region’s fragile ecology and ocean conservation effortsPaddling through the inky blue water in Stockholm’s outer archipelago, all I can see is scattered islands and birds. Some of the islands are mere skerries – rocky outcrops and reefs so small they can host but a single cormorant drying its outstretched wings – while others, such as our target Bullerön, can be a mile or more in length, with historic fishing huts, summer cottages and wooden jetties sitting among their smoothly weathered rocks and windswept forests.I’m on a two-day sea kayaking tour of Nämdöskärgården, a newly established marine national park, which is a vast 25,000 hectares (62,000 acres) of protected, mostly blue space – it is 97% covered by water – beginning on the outer reaches of the archipelago and stretching well into the Baltic Sea. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Wildfire in Namibia is contained, says PM, after criticism of response

A third of Etosha national park has been burned despite efforts of volunteers, who say troops were sent in too lateWildfires that have raged through one of Africa’s largest national parks were under control, Namibia’s government has said, amid criticisms from citizen firefighters over the lack of a national disaster response mechanism and limited resources.Fire broke out in Etosha national park, in the arid desert nation’s north, on 22 September. The government said it suspected charcoal production next to the park, which is home to 114 mammal species including the critically endangered black rhino, was to blame. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Fresh plans submitted to transform former school building into family home

A planning application has been submitted to the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park planning authority to convert the former Lochearnhead Primary building into a home.

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4 d. ago Namibia sends hundreds of soldiers to help battle huge wildfire in Etosha National Park

Namibia has sent more than 500 soldiers to help battle a huge wildfire that has burned across 30% of the country’s best-known national park

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5 d. ago Namibia deploys army to fight wildfire burning third of Etosha game reserve

Vast tract of park that is home to 114 mammal species, including critically endangered black rhino, affectedNamibia has begun deploying hundreds of soldiers to fight a fire that has burned through a third of the vast Etosha national park, one of Africa’s largest game reserves, officials said.The park in the north of the largely desert country is home to 114 species of mammals, notably the critically endangered black rhinoceros, and is a major tourist attraction. Continue reading...

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