A nearby ranch was bought by a non-profit and turned over to National Park Service to expand Great Sand Dunes National Park by 9,350 acres.
The U.S. House in Congress just used a 55 year-old law to bring under federal protection tens of thousands of wilderness and history in Colorado.
The Senate passed the Great American Outdoors Act, reauthorizing the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and providing billions for park maintenance backlog.
After 45 years, the gray wolf was deslisted from the federal Endangered Species List, now that the population has reached 6,000.
Bishop, CA officer Adam Otten picked up some "smelly hitchhikers" and drove them 40 miles after stopping at dad's Copper Top grill for lunch.
This video from Norway's Aurora Borealis Observatory showing reindeer under the northern lights is incredible, and so relaxing.
Positive numbers about the endangered Sumatran orangutan is always welcome news.
A young woman on a big horse guiding a group of clients on a ride through Glacier National Park likely saved a boy's life while proving that skill, quick-thinking and guts sometimes are the best weapons against a head-on charging bear.
Hundreds of thousands of birds moving through the sky never once run into each other or step out of turn – the results are truly magical.
Even though it took her 30 hours of hiking through a blizzard to reach shelter, Karen Klein wasn't going to let her family freeze.
Tim Sweeney has just established the largest conservation easement held by a private citizen in the history of North Carolina.
109 countries spent $14.4 billion on conservation over the course of a decade - and scientists are now discovering just how effective that funding was.
With the abundance of grizzlies making a comeback in Yellowstone National Park, the iconic mammals might be off the list for good.
This young couple had been trapped in the Australian outback for 26 hours before they were finally rescued thanks to their makeshift "HELP" sign.
Thousands of acres of solar farms are proving to be a secret lifesaver for dwindling honeybee and butterfly populations.
Having dropped a policy allowing state-owned English woodland to be sold to the private sector, the government is now committing instead to preserving it for future generations. Environment secretary Owen Paterson announced in January 2013 that a previous policy of selling off 15% of the public forest to raise funds was to be dropped and an independent public body created to hold them in trust.
A man says he is lucky to be alive after an attack by a mountain lion Monday morning while he was hiking in California. After a mountain lion pounced on him, a mother bear came from behind and jumped on the cat, tearing its grip from the man's backpack.
The world's tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass, or plant material, this century due to the effects of global warming than previously thought, scientists said in a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday.
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