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  • Florida Gulf Coast University now requires students living in dorms near its sports complex to move their cars during basketball games.During basketball…
  • After years of study, Rocky Mountain National Park has become the first national park to establish a "critical load" for pollution. The load represents the limit beyond which pollutants cause harm to wildlife and plants. The nitrogen levels in the park are already more than twice the critical load.
  • Rosa Parks' niece, Rhea McCauley, teamed up with artist Ryan Mendoza to move the civil rights icon's Detroit home to Berlin in order to save it from demolition.
  • Congress is considering whether to turn three top-secret sites involved with creating the atomic bomb into one of the country's most unusual national parks. Critics question the need for a park that celebrates nuclear weapons. Supporters say the park would ask tough questions about lessons learned.
  • Want to have a professional take your picture in a National Park? You'd better plan ahead. The Park Service has been ordered by Congress to start charging photo permit and location fees to some photographers. Host Debbie Elliott looks at the new policy and how it's playing out on the National Mall in Washington.
  • The Hillsborough County sheriff's Office says someone splashed red paint around the Confederate Memorial Park, just outside Tampa.
  • President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's family began vacationing on Campobello Island, in the Bay of Fundy, in the early 1880s. The Roosevelt Campobello International Park used to attract around 150,000 visitors a year, including tours of FDR's home. Maine Public Radio's Jay Field reports it's still trying to recover from economic hard times, while attracting new visitors.
  • University of Florida researchers morphed the casual comments people leave on Google Maps and TripAdvisor into scientific data that has figured out why some parks rule while others feel like vapid green space.
  • The marine environments of Cuba and the U.S. have always shared the same resources. Now the managers of marine protected areas in both countries will...
  • What was once Hurricane Irma is now a tropical storm. But before Irma touched down Sunday in Southwest Florida, WGCU visited a trailer park in Estero when…
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