National Parks

Wildfire smoke obscures an otherwise beautiful view from Yosemite's Half Dome

Derrick Z. Jackson/UCS

July 5, 2023

Smoke in Our Eyes: National Park Grandeur Degraded by Global Warming

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

National Park Service

June 6, 2023

Species on the Move: How Climate Change Is Re-Making Ecosystems

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Photo: Adam Markham

February 19, 2019

Chaco Canyon at Risk: Interior Nominee Bernhardt Wants to Drill on Lands Sacred to Tribes

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

July 3, 2018

Climate Change is the Fastest Growing Threat to World Heritage

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

An old whaling site on Svalbard, Norway. Photo: Adam Markham

June 29, 2018

Rapid Warming is Creating a Crisis for Arctic Archaeology

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina. Credit: NPS

May 21, 2018

If You Can’t Censor It, Bury It: DOI Tries to Make a Stark New Study on Rising Seas Invisible

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

U.S. Bureau of Land Management

April 26, 2017

President Trump's Assault on the Antiquities Act Signals Trouble for National Parks and Monuments

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

January 17, 2017

Nine Questions for Ryan Zinke, Donald Trump’s Pick to Lead the Interior Department

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Extreme rainfall events have severely damaged the adobe church at Tumacácori National Historic Park in Arizona. Photo: NPS

January 6, 2017

How Will the National Park Service Protect America’s Heritage from Climate Change?

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Gage Skidmore/Flickr

December 15, 2016

Ryan Zinke on Climate Change: What You Should Know about Trump's Choice for Department of Interior

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Moraine Park Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

Photo: Frank Schulenberg/CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia

October 17, 2016

Partnerships to Protect Fragile Mountain Ecosystems

UCS Science Network

November 12, 2014

World Heritage Sites Among Many Cultural Resources Threatened by Climate Change

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

July 3, 2014

Climate Change is Turning up the Heat on July 4th in our National Parks

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

May 20, 2014

Climate Change is Putting Iconic Historic Sites and National Parks at Growing Risk

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

July 19, 2013

Bigger, Hotter, and Longer Wildfires are the New Normal as the Climate Changes in the West

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

June 17, 2013

Birthplace of American Democracy Faces Threat from Accelerating Sea Level Rise

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy