thaw, causing problems along the lone road that snakes through the heart of the park.

Another big headache is newly sprouted roadside vegetation, said Elwood Lynn, assistant superintendent at the park.

"There's a dramatic difference, if you look in old photos, in the amount of vegetation," Lynn said. "We've got full-time crews cutting brush that we didn't have in the early '80s."

Elsewhere, accelerated erosion is taking its toll on thawed shoreline under assault from surf once held back by sea ice.

At the remote Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and Cape Krusenstern National Monument in northwestern Alaska, coastal erosion poses risks to archeological resources thousands of years old and to some modern structures near the shore, according to the Park Service strategy.

Erosion woes in Shishmaref, an Inupiat village perched atop rapidlyA married man and woman who say they subsist on "the universe's energy" rather than food have gotten coverage from several major newspapers and websites in recent days. How did such an obvious hoax go viral? Here's what we know.

The Story Originally Appeared In The British Tabloid The Sun

The article published on June 15 was — typically for the tabloid — heavy on quotes, capitalization and photos but light on fact-checking.

A "BREATHARIAN" mum-and-dad of two have barely eaten for nine years as they live off "the universe's energy". Husband and wife Akahi Ricardo and Camila Castello believe food and water is not necessary and that humans can be sustained solely by the energy of the universe. Camila and Akahi — who have a five-year-old son and two-year-old daughter