National Parks Week begins this weekend, kicking off with free entry to all parks on Saturday, April 19 — just weeks after mass layoffs and court-ordered reinstatements of some park workers.

There's a new push to reduce the levels of forever chemicals in our land, water, and our bodies.

For example, Utah’s Zion National Park has four days annually on average above 92.4 degrees – its 99th percentile temperature. That could jump to 21 days, or even higher.

There are over 7,000 rare diseases, and up to 30 million people in the U.S. are fighting one of these diseases every day, many of them children.

Last year, four dams on the Klamath River were removed. For Indigenous nations in Oregon and California, it was a victory decades in the making.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum last week ordered all national parks to “remain open and accessible.” The directive comes after about 1,000 National Park Service employees were fired. In March, a federal judge ordered them – and thousands of other laid-off federal workers – to be reinstated, but the U.S. Supreme Court recently blocked that order.

Much of southern Arizona and New Mexico are expected to see above average potential for wildfire in April.

Salmon were once a rare sighting in the Alaskan Arctic. But warming temperatures have made them more common up there, and climate change has also changed whale patterns. These shifts are being watched closely by scientists and Indigenous communities.

The proposal would give each park superintendent the authority to decide where micromobility devices can go. Some public lands groups worry they'll be permitted in environmentally-sensitive areas.

The private company behind efforts to capture and clean landfill emissions into natural gas at the Ada County Landfill says it’s weeks away from delivering fuel to Intermountain Gas customers. Boise State Public Radio first reported on the project in January, now a group of citizens is questioning the safety of that gas.