Melting glaciers, shifting biomes and dying trees in our national parks – yet we can take action on climate change
- Written by Patrick Gonzalez, Principal Climate Change Scientist, National Park Service
Trees are dying across Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks. Glaciers are melting in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Corals are bleaching in Virgin Islands National Park. Published field research conducted in U.S. national parks has detected these changes and shown that human climate change – carbon pollution from our...