North America
The glaciers in Glacier National Park are melting.
Snowpack in Yellowstone National Park is decreasing.
Blueberry bushes in Acadia National Park are flowering weeks earlier than they did more than 100 years ago.
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A new study by NASA and several partners has found that in California's Sierra Nevada, atmospheric river storms are two-and-a-half times more likely than other types of winter storms to result in destructive “rain-on-snow” events, where rain falls on existing snowpack. Those events...
By 2050, climate change will increase the groundwater deficit even more for four economically important aquifers in the Western U.S., reports a University of Arizona-led team of scientists.
Scientists from the United States National Park Service (NPS) and three American universities predict a complex future for populations of the diminutive and charismatic pika. The hamster-sized member of the rabbit family lives in rocky, icy patches in the western United States.
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Mountain glaciers are significant water storage mechanisms, but they are rapidly declining in extent worldwide. A new study shows that in the Pacific Northwest, glaciers in British Columbia and Alberta are projected to decline by around 70 percent relative to their 2005 levels by 2100...
Forest soils across New England will store fewer nutrients and metals - some beneficial, some harmful -- as climate change prompts maples and other deciduous trees to replace the region's iconic evergreen conifers, a Dartmouth College study finds.
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Glaciers, permafrost on the decline, may disappear.
New research led by the University of Colorado Boulder indicates an ongoing loss of ice on Niwot Ridge and the adjacent Green Lakes Valley in the high mountains west of Boulder is likely to...
Denali is the tallest mountain in North America. Located in south-central Alaska, the mountain's peak is 20,310 feet (6,190 meters) above sea level, also making it the third highest of the Seven Summits — the highest mountains on each of the seven continents — following Mount Everest...
On a bright and unseasonably warm March day, Auden Schendler, Aspen Skiing Company’s vice president of sustainability, and I trudge up the boot path to Highland Peak. Once we reach the 12,392-foot summit, we click into our bindings and ski down Highland Bowl, a 40-plus-degree pitch...
North America's tallest mountain peak just got a new name. Or, more accurately, the mountain formerly known as Mount McKinley just got its old name back.
On August 30, during a trip to Alaska, President Obama said the name of the state's 20,237-foot (6,168 meters) mountain...
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