TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Lucie AUBOURG, "America's national parks are losing their identity to climate change"
This aerial photo shows Mount Baldy in Indiana Dunes National Park on November 1, 2023. At Indiana Dunes National Park, beaches are submerged, and the namesake dunes are collapsing. Yet, unlike the doomed glaciers, park workers are fighting back. Every year, they fill in a damaged site along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, where the park's unique biodiversity thrives amidst surrounding steel mills and a coal-fired power station. (Photo by Diane DESOBEAU / AFP)