This time is different from 1995, thanks to new media and the post-9/11 security environment. But there are surprising similarities, too.

Snow-globe contraband, tweets in the woods, emerging disease, supercomputers visualizing the wind, and spectral images of America's national parks.

Volunteers and crews from Australia’s National Parks and Wildlife Service have been doing what they can to help some of the kangaroos, koalas, lizards, and birds that can be rescued and treated.

President Obama designated 87,500 acres of newly donated land as Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.

A civil-rights movement unfolds in Minneapolis, the city with the most-celebrated urban green spaces in the country.

Douglas Tompkins—the founder of Esprit and The North Face—is using his fortune to build massive national parks in Chile and Argentina. But what he sees as philanthropy, local ranchers see as meddling.

He’s spoken in support of Confederate statues while threatening to undo as many as 27 conservation parks.