National park
hideA national park is a reserve of land, usually declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution. National parks are protected areas of IUCN category II. The largest national park in the world is the Northeast Greenland National Park, which was established in 1974. According to The World Conservation Union IUCN, there are now 6,555 national parks worldwide (2006 figure).
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News tagged with national park
Galapagos volcano erupts, could threaten wildlife
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Apr 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ecuador officials say a volcano is erupting in the Galapagos Islands and could harm unique wildlife.
Loss of Wolves Causes Major Ecosystem Disruption at Olympic National Park
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Jul 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Olympic National Park was created in 1938, in part “to preserve the finest sample of primeval forests in the entire United States” – but a new study at Oregon State University suggests that ...
Simulations, ancient magnetism suggest mantle plumes may bend deep beneath Earth's crust
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Apr 02, 2009 |
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Computer simulations, paleomagnetism and plate motion histories described in today's issue of Science reveal how hotspots, centers of erupting magma that sit atop columns of hot mantle that were once though ...
Fires regenerate African grassland
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Natural grass fires are evidently more important for the ecology of savannahs than has previously been assumed. This is the finding of a study carried out in Etosha National Park in the north of Namibia. It ...
Scientist uses sedimentary record to uncover planet's past
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Feb 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The wind barreled across the ice at Daily Lake as Montana State University paleoecologist Cathy Whitlock and three students used all their strength to pull a metal pipe out of the mucky lake ...
Wolves, moose and biodiversity: An unexpected connection
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Moose eat plants; wolves kill moose. What difference does this classic predator-prey interaction make to biodiversity?
'Vicious' Giant Python Invading Florida
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New studies suggest a 20 foot snake, the African rock python, is making its home in Florida and could soon invade the Everglades National Park.
Geographic isolation drives the evolution of a hot springs microbe
May 27, 2009 |
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Sulfolobus islandicus, a microbe that can live in boiling acid, is offering up its secrets to researchers hardy enough to capture it from the volcanic hot springs where it thrives. In a new study, researchers report that p ...
Elephant populations decline in the wild, but zoos may not be the answer
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Jan 04, 2009 |
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In Chad, the ivory poachers have upgraded to automatic weapons. Having bolstered the population at this "last stand for elephants" in central Africa, the Wildlife Conservation Society estimated recently that the numbers had ...
Big cats, wild pigs and short-eared dogs -- oh, my!
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released photos today from the first large-scale census of jaguars in the Amazon region of Ecuador—one of the most biologically rich regions on the planet.
Scientists examine effect of wolves' absence and see an ecosystem 'unraveling'
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Jan 29, 2009 |
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No trace remains of the wolves whose howls ricocheted for millennia down the lush valleys of the Olympic Peninsula. Settlers and trappers killed them all in little more than three decades.
In a last 'stronghold' for endangered chimpanzees, survey finds drastic decline
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Oct 13, 2008 |
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In a population survey of West African chimpanzees living in Côte d'Ivoire, researchers estimate that this endangered subspecies has dropped in numbers by a whopping 90 percent since the last survey was conducted 18 years ...
Orphaned elephants forced to forge new bonds decades after ivory ban
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Jan 20, 2009 |
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An African elephant never forgets - especially when it comes to the loss of its kin, according to researchers at the University of Washington. Their findings, published online in the journal, Molecular Ecology, reveal that ...
Team finds Yellowstone alga that detoxifies arsenic
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Arsenic may be tough, but scientists have found a Yellowstone National Park alga that's tougher.
Swarm of Yellowstone earthquakes doesn't pose risk, scientists say
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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When you have 400 earthquakes on top of one of the largest supervolcanoes on Earth, people pay attention.
