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Cultural heritage is an essential resource for climate change science, reports say

Four reports by the International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change highlight that human cultural heritage has a wealth of knowledge to contribute to grapple with climate change.

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Sea level rise follows an East Coast island community that already moved once

Sea level rise follows an East Coast island community that already moved once

An island community moved to the mainland. Now the fast-rising sea is following — a warning for the rest of the East Coast.
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Matthew Thompson: In an age of constant disaster, what does it mean to rebuild?

Each catastrophe is a test of what kind of society we’ve built. And each recovery offers a chance, however fleeting, to build another.
Where Dalí once painted the sea, wind turbines are set to rise

Where Dalí once painted the sea, wind turbines are set to rise

Contentious plans to erect a wind farm off the northeastern coast of Spain are part of a tense debate over where to locate new renewable energy projects across Europe.
Climate change threatens St. Andrews, golf's birthplace

Climate change threatens St. Andrews, golf's birthplace

The Old Course, site of this year’s British Open, could be more vulnerable to floodwaters in the coming decades. Other links courses are even more imperiled.
Finding traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland's Eastern Shore

Finding traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland's Eastern Shore

A historian marks the 200th birthday of a fearless conductor of the Underground Railroad with a visit to her birthplace, only to learn how climate change is washing away memories of “the ultimate outdoors woman.”
Pollution is threatening some of the world’s oldest rock carvings

Pollution is threatening some of the world’s oldest rock carvings

Scientists fear climate change and mining contamination could destroy Murujuga—Australia’s next UNESCO site—within a century.

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