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A park in Stockholm, Sweden at evening time (Getty Images/Yelizaveta Tomashevska)

We need more parks, not air pollution

Jackie Ostfeld
Empty swings at a park (Getty Images)

Which cities get failing grades on parks

Jill Stewart - FairWarning
In a Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Tyler Witten peers through a window at the Sanibel House, a residential addiction center in Catlettsburg, Ky. Witten, a former opioid addict, has gone through an addiction program and now works as a weekend staffer at the house. The house and other centers are operated by Addiction Recovery Care, which is seeing many new patients who are covered under Kentuckys Medicaid expansion as part of the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan) (AP)

Americans struggle with cabin fever

Marjie Lundstrom - FairWarning
Views of the sunken road, known as the "bloody lane", on the Antietam battlefield, where over 5,500 soldiers lost their lives in four hours of combat on September 17 of 1862, as seen on March 26, 2019 in the farmland outside of the small village of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The Civil War battlefield has been preserved by the National Park Service as an historical site. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

From battlefields to parks

Todd Lookingbill, Peter Smallwood - The Conversation
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Shutdown is damaging national parks

Matthew Rozsa
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Parks help cities if people use them

Thaisa Way - The Conversation
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12 podcasts about the great outdoors

Ma'ayan Plaut
FILE - This Sept. 3, 2008 file photo shows an endangered desert tortoise sitting in the middle of an eastern Mojave Desert road near Ivanpah, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

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Julia Flasphaler - Alternet
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Adults need to play, too

Jay Maddock - The Conversation
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Welcome to Coca-Cola Town, USA
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Henry Grabar
A couple enjoys a sunny afternoon against the backdrop of the Midtown skyline from Piedmont Park in Atlanta. (David Goldman/AP)

Joseph Stromberg - Smithsonian.com
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Lindsay Abrams
Ted Cruz, Theodore Roosevelt National Park (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/AP/Valerie J. Naylor)

GOP's weird parks obsession

Deena Shanker
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