Climate Change Threatens Historic U.S. Landmarks, Report Claims
BY BILL BRIGGS
Climate change is threatening to erase 30 of the most treasured slices of American history, a scientific group asserted Tuesday.
Rising ocean levels, mammoth flooding from extreme storms, and an expanding spate of wildfires are all putting an array of celebrated and seminal U.S. places under siege –- and some possibly under water, according to a report titled "National Landmarks at Risk."
Authored by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a nonprofit alliance of more than 400,000 biologists, physicists and other citizens
based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the report’s list of jeopardized memorials reads like a grade-school history book -– from the Statue of Liberty in New York to California’s 19th-century gold-rush ground.
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