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A small sample of the hats collected by the Yellowstone National Park Geology Program from sensitive thermal areas throughout the park in 2025. CREDIT: National Park Service photo by Margery Price, September 3, 2025.
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Yellowstone employees recover over 300 hats from hydrothermal areas

from popsci.com MARGHERITA BASSI PUBLISHED SEP 13, 2025 10:00 AM EDT It’s a bird! No, it’s a plane! No, it’s your hat, ripped off your head by a gust of wind, spiraling off into the unknown. It’s happened to the best of us. The only thing left to do is purchase another one before your face gets sunburnt. Soon, the destiny of your former hat, along … Continue reading Yellowstone employees recover over 300 hats from hydrothermal areas

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The U.S. gets a new national marine sanctuary, the first led by a tribe

Lauren Sommer, NPR Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationCredit: Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR More than 4,500 square miles of ocean will soon be protected by the federal government off the Central California coast. The Biden administration is creating a new national marine sanctuary, which will be the third largest in the U.S. The sanctuary is also the first to be led by Indigenous people. It was … Continue reading The U.S. gets a new national marine sanctuary, the first led by a tribe

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New marine protections could help wildlife thrive — but also squeeze San Diego fishermen

San Diego Union TribuneBy ANA RAMIREZ | ana.ramirez@sduniontribune.com | The San Diego Union-TribuneUPDATED: August 6, 2024 at 9:07 a.m. There’s a push to expand a protected area off Point Loma. The reason? Kelp — which is key to ocean wildlife but is vanishing all along California’s coast. A proposal to expand one of San Diego’s 11 marine protected areas would make it the largest in the county, … Continue reading New marine protections could help wildlife thrive — but also squeeze San Diego fishermen

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Visitors Ignore Closed Signs at Yosemite

From thecooldown.com by Mike Taylor, November 25, 2023 Though national parks are a celebration of the beauty of nature, tourists aren’t always on their best behavior when visiting.  Tourons of National Parks (@touronsofnationalparks) shared a post about visitors behaving badly last month. This time, they encroached on a restoration area in Yosemite National Park’s largest grove of giant sequoias. Mikayla Morse (@mikaylamorse15) wrote in the caption that she came across a group … Continue reading Visitors Ignore Closed Signs at Yosemite

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How Lobster Eyes Can Help Astronomers Get a Wider View of the Cosmos

VIP Mary submitted this article. She says “This new kind of telescope reminds me of the use of the fresnel lens in lighthouses, just in reverse. This new telescope takes light & images in from multiple sources where as the fresnel lens projects & refracts the light source out to a wider angle from the original light source.” The crustacean-inspired technology can help us analyze … Continue reading How Lobster Eyes Can Help Astronomers Get a Wider View of the Cosmos

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Sustainable Batteries Could One Day Be Made From Crab Shells

From Popular Science A material in crab shells has been used to brew booze, dress wounds, and store energy. There are those who say ours is the age of the battery. New and improved batteries, perhaps more than anything else, have made possible a world of mobile phones, smart devices, and blossoming electric vehicle fleets. Electrical grids powered by clean energy may soon depend on server-farm-sized battery projects with … Continue reading Sustainable Batteries Could One Day Be Made From Crab Shells

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