5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (820+ words) WorldAtlas Stand in almost any patch of woods east of the Mississippi River, and there is a good chance the oldest tree around is not much older than a great-grandparent. That is not because American forests are dying, but because…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1142+ words) WorldAtlas The native fish of the American West have taken a brutal beating. A century of dams, water diversions, drought, and introduced species pushed dozens of them toward oblivion, and the region's trout, chub, and salmon are among the most…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (828+ words) WorldAtlas In southeast Alaska, researchers worked out which way storms blew four centuries ago. They did it by noting which way the fallen trunks pointed. A forest that leans one way is a record, and what it records changes every…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (278+ words) What is actually going on involves a specific rock, a trade-off that most trees cannot afford, and a scientific consensus that has shifted in the last decade. Two additional properties are important and have opposite effects. Dolomite's pale color reflects…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (683+ words) In 1800, as many as 50,000 grizzly bears roamed across the West, north into Canada and south into Mexico, with a range reaching east as far as Kansas and west to California. But when European settlers arrived in the West in the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (819+ words) WorldAtlas There's a unique American traffic phenomenon known as a bison jam, a term used by rangers. It occurs when a two-thousand-pound bison decides to stand in the middle of the road, creating a queue that can last up to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (811+ words) WorldAtlas Few moments in the American wilderness match the sight of a grizzly bear moving across open country. Once ranging across much of North America, grizzlies now live in only a fraction of their historic territory, which makes the national…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (379+ words) WorldAtlas There are thousands of state parks in the United States, but each state park is different when it comes to large predators. Early settlers hunted and removed large carnivores from most local regions long before modern state parks were…...