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Climate change curtails access to Alaska’s Denali National Park

This summer and next year, Denali National Park's sole road will remain closed at its halfway point, victim to a warming climate that has triggered the collapse of a mountain slope.

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At Alaska’s most popular national park, climate change threatens the only road in and out

A massive glacier at Denali National Park has shut down the tourist season early and could threaten Alaska's economy.
Global warming: Alaskan glacier is melting at the fastest pace in 400 years
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Global warming: Alaskan glacier is melting at the fastest pace in 400 years

A new study said melting on Mount Hunter in Alaska’s Denali National Park can be linked mainly to rising summer temperatures in the region.
A look into a climate-altered Alaska
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A look into a climate-altered Alaska

Experiments in the permafrost zone near Denali simulate a warmer North.
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Scientists stunned by massive snowfall increases among Alaska’s highest peaks
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Scientists stunned by massive snowfall increases among Alaska’s highest peaks

“Snowfall before the Industrial Revolution averaged about eight feet of fresh snow a year at this site, and now we get over 18 feet of fresh snow.”
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