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Obama touts the wonders of Yosemite and national parks, plus the realities of climate change
2016-06-18 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: With Yosemite Falls in the background, President Obama told an audience Saturday that climate change is already impacting America`s national parks. "Make no mistake, climate change is no longer just a threat - it`s already a reality," he said from a lectern near Sentinel Bridge in Yosemite National Park. The first family`s trip to what, with about 4 million visitors a year, is the nation`s fourth most-visited park, comes as the National Park Service is approaching its 100th anniversary in August....
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Even in pristine national parks, the air's not clear
2016-06-15 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Smithsonian.com: You just may want to join a ranger-led hike in Southwest Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. You'll see a spot where the scrubby pinyon-juniper forest drops off. It falls into a sandstone chasm. It reveals a maze of 800-year-old stone dwellings. They are wedged beneath an overhang in the canyon wall. They're well preserved. It's easy to imagine you've stepped back in time. And that nothing has changed in this high desert landscape since the Ancestral Puebloans built these chambers. They were created...
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Which National Parks Do You Want to Get $2 Million?
2016-06-15 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Visitors take pictures of Old Faithful, a hallmark of Yellowstone National Park. This month, park lovers will vote to determine which of 20 parks, including Yellowstone, will win $2 million. Twenty national park sites have the chance to win part of two million dollars in corporate funding. Those with the most votes will receive up to $250,000 for a preservation or restoration project-and it's up to the public to choose which sites those will be. (Vote here.) The 2016 Partners in Preservation...
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Threatened By Climate Change, National Parks And World Heritage Sites Draw Millions
2016-05-30 20:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Think Progress: With spring now in full gear throughout most of the United States, its a good bet that Memorial Day Weekend will again be the busiest of the whole year at many national parks, including the Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and Utahs Mount Zion. Last year, 305 million people visited National Park Service-administered sites, signifying the parks appeal to millions of Americans and world tourists. Theyd better hurry. A report released Thursday from the United Nations and the...
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Climate Change Is the National Parks' Biggest Challenge
2016-05-25 23:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: To say Teddy Roosevelt was a wise man is an understatement. At the turn of the 20th century, in a time of rapidly increasing industrialization and the rapacious plundering of the natural world, Roosevelt got it. The giant sequoias tucked away in the folds of Californias Sierra Nevada mountains could have been a source for millions of wood planks. Instead, theyre the source of millions of memories and a reflection on what it means to be human, thanks to efforts of conservationists, including...
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