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Climate change and the threat to our cultural heritage
2016-06-18 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: The timing was grimly appropriate. No sooner had the United Nations stressed the risk that climate change poses to world heritage sites than curators at the Louvre, in Paris, rushed to move 250,000 artworks to safety from flooding. Extreme weather had forced the closure of one of the worlds most famous museums a museum, whats more, that is at the heart of the Banks of the Seine world heritage site, which stretches from the Eiffel Tower to the Īle St Louis, and where the river rose 6m above its...
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