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A recently published report that studied all 417 U.S. National Parks indicates climate change is having a significant and unique impact on many of them. The study was initially widely reported in the Miami Herald on September 24, and an abstract can be found in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Environmental Research Letters. (Disproportionate Magnitude of Climate Change in United States National Parks). National Park sites appear to be warming and drying out in more pronounced ways due, in part, to the fact that many of them are at higher elevations or are located in the ...
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