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Traveler Special Report: Climate Change At Glen Canyon NRA

Water is big business, bigger in the Southwest than perhaps anywhere else in the United States, and so where the Colorado River flows, economics and politics closely follow. More than 40 million people downstream depend upon its waters for agriculture, cities and businesses. At Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in southern Utah and northern Arizona, that reality rises in the 710-foot tall Glen Canyon Dam and shimmers in the lake that it has formed, Lake Powell.

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February 23rd, 2020

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Traveler Special Report: How Climate Change Is Redesigning Canyonlands National Park

Climate change is altering the flow of the Colorado River through Canyonlands National Park. And that throws a significant degree of uncertainty into how the phenomena is changing the park and its river.

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February 16th, 2020

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Traveler Special Report: As Goes The Colorado River, So Go The Parks

A warming climate has been linked to human activity around the world, and has affected the Colorado River System as well. The impacts are substantial, from reduced water flows, threats to indigenous species and the influx of new invasive species along the river system. National Parks Traveler sent Patrick Cone to investigate the impacts on Canyonlands National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. From Moab to Green River, Utah, and Page to Flagstaff Arizona he talked to Park Service personnel, river runners, residents, business owners and other stakeholders who rely on a healthy Colorado River for their existence

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February 9th, 2020

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Unusually Warm Sea Waters Blamed For Seabird Deaths

Late last year, thousands of seabirds were reported to have mysteriously died in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas, including near Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. Now scientists believe the culprit in their demise was warming seas.

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January 15th, 2020

Factoring Climate Change Into Visitor Needs At Big Bend National Park

Meteorology is being factored into the future of visitation at Big Bend National Park, at least when it comes to finding a room in the rugged and sprawling swath of Chihuahuan ecosystem protected by the park in West Texas.

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By Kurt Repanshek - January 15th, 2020

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Former NPS Director Jarvis Continues Working On Agency's Climate Change Mission

Jon Jarvis took a detour from the typical retirement path after his National Park Service career, which he wrapped up with eight years as director of that agency. Instead of traveling for enjoyment and relaxation, he's working to help guide the Park Service's approach to climate change from outside the agency.

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January 12th, 2020

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Warming Climate Expected To Affect Rocky Mountain Rivers

Rivers in the Rocky Mountains that typically freeze over during winter are expected to see fewer days of being frozen as the climate continues to warm, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

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January 2nd, 2020

Threatened And Endangered Parks: Alaska

As delegates from nearly 200 countries gathered for the recent international conference on climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried the “utterly inadequate” global response to the crisis so far. He warned that the “point of no return is no longer over the horizon” but that “It is in sight and hurtling toward us.” Nowhere are the consequences more visibly “hurtling,” and landing, than in Alaska. And in the northern state’s national parks and preserves, that means growing pressures on the very resources the National Park Service is charged with protecting.

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December 31st, 2019

National Park Sites On List Of Landscapes At Risk From Climate Change

National park settings from Death Valley National Park to Cape Hatteras National Seashore are among 10 cultural landscapes seen by the Cultural Landscape Foundation as being at risk from climate change.

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November 11th, 2019

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UPDATED | Clamping Down On Climate Science At The National Park Service

You still can find some climate change information on the vast nps.gov domain, but there isn't much that's terribly recent. That's a troubling development when if you believe the National Parks Conservation Association's contention that climate change was a significant concern for 80 percent of all national park units.

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November 3rd, 2019

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