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WASHINGTON — The National Park Service has launched a Web site for visitors with disabilities and other special needs to help them find accessible trails, programs and activities at national parks.

The Web site at www.nps.gov/pub_aff/access is called "National Parks: Accessible to Everyone."

Many individual parks have sections on their Web sites about accessibility, and the new national database is a work in progress, incorporating information as it becomes available.

The site lists places where signed interpreters can be arranged for the hearing-impaired and which visitor centers have captioned movies or services for visually impaired park-goers. There are also detailed descriptions of trails, including the type of surface, for visitors who have mobility handicaps or use wheelchairs.

A description of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for example, notes that most park trails are "steep and rugged," but a half-mile paved trail can be found on Newfound Gap Road south of the Sugarlands Visitor Center, along the West Prong of the Little Pigeon River. The path even has tracks of a black bear that happened to wander across the wet concrete when the trail was built.

KEY WEST, Fla. — Key West's hot-pink taxis are going green.

Five Sixes Taxi has acquired 10 environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles as the first step to convert its entire fleet.

Company officials project the new fuel-efficient vehicles, which are still painted pink, will get about 38 miles per gallon in the city, versus their previous vehicles' 12 to 13 mpg performance.

Company president Jan Doelman says going hybrid "will reduce our emissions factor by 80 percent."

The company plans to replace its other 13 sedans with hybrids by March, and change its 23 seven-passenger Maxi Taxis when a suitable hybrid van becomes available.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — American Girl is coming to America's mall.

The store that's become popular selling dolls and accessories will come to the Mall of America in November, the Star Tribune reported.

The closest American Girl store to Minnesota now is in Chicago, with other stores in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Atlanta.

The Mall of America location will be in a 20,000-square-foot, two-level space with a doll hair salon, cafe and party rooms. It will be located near Nickelodeon Universe.

— The Associated Press

LONDON — Thousands of England's historic sites and monuments are endangered by threats ranging from neglectful landlords and wet weather to burrowing rabbits, the country's heritage guardian said.

English Heritage has surveyed about 70,000 buildings, monuments, parks, battlefields and shipwrecks and says one in 12 is in danger of neglect, decay or "inappropriate change."

It is urging local authorities to do more to protect sites in their areas.

The threatened monuments span many centuries of English history and include eroding Iron Age hill forts, crumbling Victorian railway stations and ruined abbeys.

English Heritage chief executive Simon Thurley said these and other monuments — "the vandalized standing stones, the crumbling pillbox on the beach, the overgrown country park and the rusting colliery winding gear against the sky — are places, buildings and landscapes that have the potential to shape the quality and even the course of our lives."

The organization said it hopes to compile a database of all threatened heritage sites in the country.