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April 9, 2010

Icefields disappear at Montana park

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Glacier National Park has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields, a government researcher said Wednesday.

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


 
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