Climate change is destroying our national parks at an alarming rate, study finds

By 2100, visitors walking the grounds of California’s Joshua Tree National Park may view exhibits showing what will have been lost — the spiky yucca palms that inspired the park’s name, dwindled to a few rare husks.

Wildfires burn at Glacier National Park, Mont.

Climate change could kill most of the park’s iconic trees, wildfires may transform the towering conifer forests at Yellowstone National Park into scarred grasslands, and once-mighty ice sheets in the north will probably melt and flow into the sea, making Glacier National Park both an obsolete name and a hard lesson about environmental degradation.

Read the story by Alex Horton from The Washington Post - “Climate change is destroying our national parks at an alarming rate, study finds.”