Experts raise alarm over threat to cultural heritage from climate change

ATHENS - Climate change could wreak “irreversible damage” on the world’s most precious ancient monuments and other cultural sites, experts warned Saturday as they pushed for U.N. protection for major global sites.

People visit a new section housing the remains of an ancient
Athens neighborhood beneath the Acropolis museum in Athens
 on Friday. Climate change could wreak “irreversible damage”
on the world’s most precious ancient monuments and other
cultural sites, experts warned Saturday as they pushed for
U.N. protection for major global sites.

Academics and policy makers gathered in Athens for a meeting on the threats to world heritage called for an array of tools to predict, measure and counter the effects of climate change.

They are campaigning to have the issue included on the agenda at the U.N. Summit for Climate Change in New York in September.

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