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It's hard to escape the glare from big cities and metro areas to see all the wonder that the skies have to offer, but several national parks are looking to serve as better windows into the cosmos.Light pollution obscures the views of the stars and planets, making it more challenging for people to marvel at them in the dark skies.

ROME Throughout his short life, the brown bear known as Juan Carrito always made headlines.He was famous in Italy in part for being an Apennine brown bear, a critically endangered subspecies that lives in the Apennine Mountains, in an area straddling the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise regions.But he was also a personality or at least a bear whose gluttonous excursions into human territory brought him celebrity among many Italians, and who was held up as a warning by wildlife advocates.

In September 2021, Hawaii's Kilauea volcano began erupting, and it didn't stop for more than a year.In December 2022, the volcano appeared to go dormant again as neighbor volcano Mauna Loabegan to erupt in 2022 for the first time in 40 years, but that pause was short-lived.The volcano has begun to erupt again.

Is the green belt doomed?One of the great creations of postwar British planning the concept of a national park within reach of every city-dweller is fast losing friends.Under siege from centralist housing targets, argued between Tories and their lobbyists, it has now been undermined by Labour's Keir Starmer.

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Rishi Sunak says he will keep using the English name Brecon Beacons, which the national park has dropped.It rebranded with its Welsh name, Bannau Brycheiniog, this month, a decision criticised by Welsh Tories.Ahead of this weekend's Welsh Conservative conference, the prime minister said he thought "most people" would still say the Brecon Beacons.

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One of California's biggest ghost towns has been sold to a mysterious buyer whose plans are unclear.Eagle Mountain, located in Riverside County near the southeast corner of Joshua Tree National Park, was once a bustling iron mine.The 10,000-acre site has sold for nearly $22.6 million, according to Securities and Exchange Commission records.

In an effort to stay on the cutting edge (and also maintain its monopoly in the search engine space), Google is unleashing the power of AI and is integrating its search results with generative artificial intelligence technology similar to one found in the incredibly viral OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot.During its recently held annual I/O conference, the tech giant unveiled its ambitious plans to leverage AI across all of its products, including its widely used and proficient search engine.

Just a few days ago, an archeologist discovered an unexploded, Civil War-era artillery shell near Little Round Top in Gettysburg National Military Park, the site of one of the most famous battles of the American Civil War.The unexploded artillery shell prompted a slew of safety measures and road closures as experts attempted to remove it safely.

It's only human to feel a little heartbreak at the thought of chasing a thing in retreat.We're not good with endings, generally speaking.Breakups, funerals, the death of a pet.It's a lot easier to process continuity than The End - we want to be here forever.So you'd think that a film about a few mountain runners hunting the last vestiges of Glacier National Park's namesake natural features would strike a melancholy chord.

The last super-eruption at Yellowstone volcano, which occurred 631,000 years ago, was not one huge explosion.Instead, new research suggests it was a series of eruptions or multiple vents spewing volcanic material in rapid succession.According to the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Yellowstone Volcano Observatory 2022 Annual Report, published May 4, fieldwork over the past year has provided new geological evidence that "the formation of Yellowstone Caldera was much more complex than previously thought."

As I entered Shoreline Amphitheater on Wednesday, I thought I was attending Google IO the company's annual developers conference.But after listening to CEO Sundar Pichai and several other Google executives speak about new products and services, the event felt like it should be renamed Google AI.Indeed, the first 75 minutes of the two-hour event was focused on how artificial intelligence and specifically generative AI (GAI), is not only the main ingredient of Google Bard, the company's new conversational, AI chat service, but soon integrated into all its services including search, photos, maps and Google docs.

Summer is just around the corner.If you haven't locked in your vacation plans, or you're desperately looking for day trips to keep the kids busy, a new map that outlines which national parks have the best biodiversity might be a great way to start your search.Vacation rental company Casago wanted to find out the best state parks across the U.S. that are perfect for families who are obsessed with wildlife.

As we crawl out of the darker days of winter, there's a lot to look forward to - especially if the family is planning a road trip to a national park or as part of a larger vacation.In a lot of cases, driving can be cheaper than flying, and if you have a dog, road trips are much more pet-friendly vacations than putting your dog in a plane's cargo hold.

On October 17, President Joe Biden designated a half-acre school campus into the National Park System.The Blackwell School National Historic Site Act was signed into law, "protecting one of the first national park sites dedicated to telling modern Latino history," per the National Parks Conservation Association.

Fresno is a bustling city located in the heart of California, offering plenty of things to do and see.However, sometimes it's nice to get out of the city and explore the surrounding areas.Fortunately, Fresno is surrounded by beautiful landscapes, historic sites, and quaint towns, making it a great starting point for a variety of day trips.

Local studio Atelier Data has built the Praia Grande house in Portugal's Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, which is made from five interconnected volumes and features a swimming pool designed to look like a pond.Atelier Data's Praia Grande consists of five volumes clad in metal-sheet facades and finished in projected cork.

Atelier Data built the Praia Grande house in Portugal's Sintra-Cascais Natural Park.The home is constructed using five volumes that have been clad in metal-sheet facades and provided with a finishing of projected cork.The house also features a swimming pool that has been made to resemble a pond.The five volumes have been placed to cover up the empty space between the protected trees in the national park.

If you build your dreams on wheels, the Boulder should be your trailer of choice on the next outing to a National Park.A four-person teardrop trailer for EVs, the Boulder is more than a comfortable tow-in camper for sleeping: It is also a power backup for your EV.Designed and manufactured by Colorado Teardrops, the Boulder is specifically made with the unpredictable native weather in mind.

A geometric form built from exposed concrete defines the Fieldhouse sports centre, which Italian studio MoDus Architects has created in the South Tyrolean town of Laghetti.Overlooking a national park at the foot of Mount Corno in Italy, the leisure centre was designed to replace an old building on the site and provide the surrounding community with a new social space.

Of Monsters and Men co-founder Nanna joins Kyle Meredith to reveal the story behind her debut solo album, How to Start a Garden.The singer explores working with The National's Aaron Dessner as a producer, being inspired by old Godzilla movies, and being a hermit kid who loved poetry.She also tells us about releasing a song in her native Icelandic language for the first time and breaking into a national park to shoot the album cover on a glacier.

It was a relatively warm February morning near Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn, as children played and dog owners strolled by, enjoying a peaceful Sunday on a holiday weekend.Sometime after 10 a.m., the tranquillity was interrupted by an unexpected sight: a four-foot-long alligator, which was noticed by a New York City Parks Department maintenance worker and pulled from the lake by members of the Parks Enforcement Patrol and the Urban Park Rangers, according to a Parks Department spokesman.

Cabin roofs at Yosemite National Park are almost completely covered with snow.At the park's Badger Pass ski area, snow is up to the second floor of the lodge.In the Yosemite Valley, snow accumulation broke a 54-year-old daily record - by multiple inches.The historic snowfall in the Sierra Nevada from back-to-back winter storms has closed the world-famous park indefinitely while rangers and park staffers work to respond to the epic snowpack.

Australian park rangers believe they have stumbled upon a record-breaking giant toad deep in a rainforest of the country's northern Queensland state.(Video: Reuters)
As Kylee Gray got out of her car, she looked to the ground and gasped in disbelief.The ranger at Conway National Park in Queensland, Australia, had stopped the vehicle last week in a wild rainforest after she saw a snake slithering across the track.

If you're looking for the best national parks in the United States, you've come to the right place.This article will give you expert tips on what Parks are must-sees and which ones you can skip.You'll also get some history on each of these unique places so that you can appreciate them even more when you see them in person.

22 Photos View Slide Show  Adler Grey Real Estate Media Collective This house is a few blocks from the Little Arkansas River, in the Riverside neighborhood, which sits between that body of water and the Arkansas River.Central Riverside Park, home to a small zoo, a playground and walking trails with river views, is less than half a mile away.

Anyone fixated with rewilding as the only model to restore nature to Britain's denuded uplands would do well to visit Extremadura in Spain.From a spot called Pena Falcon at the heart of this national park, there unfolds an immense oak forest rolling to every horizon.This landscape may look devoid of people, but every tree has been hand-sculpted (by chainsaw these days) to be flat-topped.

This post originally appeared in the October 29, 2022 edition of Eater Travel, a bi-weekly-ish dispatches from Eater's staff about navigating the places where food is the main attraction.Subscribe now.Because my favorite type of vacation is a lengthy road trip through the mountains, I tend to eat a lot of terrible gas station food when I travel.

This post originally appeared in the October 29, 2022 edition of Eater Travel, a bi-weekly-ish dispatches from Eater's staff about navigating the places where food is the main attraction.Subscribe now.Because my favorite type of vacation is a lengthy road trip through the mountains, I tend to eat a lot of terrible gas station food when I travel.

Since then, he has led efforts to expand the cave system by finding new entrances and chambers and connecting segments disconnected over time.In a first wave of improvements, roads were repaved and new hotels, stores and coffee shops sprang up.But now, with the virus receding and the release of two major new film productions, many residents are hopeful that Tham Luang will again be a magnet for visitors when the rainy season ends and the cave reopens in October."By next year," he predicts, "it will be the longest cave system in Thailand."