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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Global Warming Threatens 12 U.S. National Parks, Report Warns


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Dawn strikes the mountains rising above St. Mary Lake in Montana's Glacier National Park. A new study reports that the effects of global warming are already apparent in many U.S. national parks, including Glacier, whose trademark ice floes are in steady retreat.

Photograph by Raymond Gehman/NGS