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Goodbye Glaciers: We can literally watch the extinction of the 7,000 year-old glaciers that give Glacier National Park its name--they’re vanishing right before our eyes. Only 27 of an estimated 150 glaciers remain since the park was established in 1910. Although these glaciers have been gradually melting since the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850, the rate of melting has accelerated rapidly over the last decade. in fact, the mean annual summer temperature in Glacier National Park has increased three times more than the global average. Latest news predicts that by 2020 the park’s glaciers will survive only in memory: Billings Gazette, June 15: Glacier Park's Ice Fields May Be Gone by Next Decade
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