Global warming threatens 12 Western national parks, which could see increases in fires, floods and a loss of wildlife, according to a new report by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization.
The report says some of the nation’s most prominent parks, including Mesa Verde, Rocky Mountain National Park, Yellowstone, and Yosemite will see drastic changes.
Some of those changes may include a loss of wildflowers, melting of glaciers and reduced river flows.
“A climate disrupted by heat-trapping pollution is the gravest threat our national parks have ever faced,” said Stephen Saunders, one of the report’s principal authors and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior over the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
