Glacier National Park

The park’s glaciers have been slowly melting since about 1850, when the centuries-long Little Ice Age ended.
National Park Service

THE GIST:

  • Glacier National Park has lost two more glaciers to warming.
  • Twenty-five named glaciers are left in the national park.
  • All of the glaciers could be completely gone by the end of the decade.



Glacier National Park has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields to climate change, which is shrinking the rivers of ice until they grind to a halt, a government researcher said Wednesday.

Warmer temperatures have reduced the number of named glaciers in the northwestern Montana park to 25, said Dan Fagre, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. He warned the rest of the glaciers may be gone by the end of the decade.

Seriously, there’s no proof… anywhere… :-\

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