EarthGauge has an interesting article today on some impacts that are currently affecting national parks around the  nation as the globe warms.  It features two parks from the Southeast: Great Smoky Mountain National Park and Everglades National Park.  You can read the article at https://www.earthgauge.net/2015/your-national-parks-and-climate-change.

Near Clingman's Dome. Source: Miriam Kraatz, Commons Wikimedia
Near Clingman’s Dome. Source: Miriam Kraatz, Commons Wikimedia