Series: Climate Change in Nth California and Sth Oregon

Discover how climate change is impacting national parks sites as varied as volcanoes, caves, coastline and deserts.

• Article 1: Climate Change and National Parks

  

  Climate change affects national parks and the treasures they protect. Scenic wonders, cultural heritage, plants and animals, and even your national park experience will be altered due to climate change. What will this transformation look like? Read more

• Article 2: Climate Change Is Real

  

  Climate change is real and national parks and communities across the country are already experiencing the impacts. Read more

• Glacier National Park

  Article 3: Climate Change Teacher Workshop

  

  Teachers from across the nation come to Glacier National Park to learn about climate change. Read more

• Article 4: Isn't climate change a natural process?

  

  Earth's temperature fluctuates naturally over tens of thousands to millions of years. Scientists take these fluctuations into account when they assert that we are currently experiencing unique conditions in Earth's history. Read more

• Article 5: How did scientists come to current conclusions about climate change?

  

  When faced with a question, scientists first develop a "hypothesis" and then subject their hypothesis to rigorous experimentation and observation, a process called the "scientific method." Read more

• Article 6: Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands - Climate Change and Literature Cited

  

  The effects of climate change, including warming temperatures and increasing droughts, are already evident in pinyon-juniper woodlands across the American Southwest. Read more

• Article 7: The National Park Service response to climate change in wilderness

  

  Parks are responding to the effects of climate change using an active approach to wilderness stewardship. This study describes the level and diversity of the stewardship responses and the effects they have on wilderness character. Read more

• Denali National Park & Preserve

  Article 8: Understanding Change: How Communities Perceive Climate Change

  

  How might climate change affect subsistence users? Observations collected from community members help to identify the challenges a changing climate poses to traditional lifestyles . Read more

• Glacier National Park

  Article 9: Youth Climate Change Ambassadors Conduct Citizen Science

  

  In 2010 high school students from San Diego learned about climate change in Glacier National Park as they met with climate change researchers, surveyed mountain goats, and—for some—saw snow for the first time. Read more

• Article 10: Is the sun causing climate change?

  

  The sun's activity does affect Earth's seasonal cycles, but on timescales of thousands of years. Read more