Climate Changed
Britain’s Cherished Landmarks Under Threat From Climate Change
- Hertiage site Orkney Islands at risk from rising oceans
- Welsh WWII site needs protecting from erosion, study says
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Climate change doesn’t care about history and is already claiming Roman and medieval settlements around the British coastline.
Rising sea levels and coastal erosion are threatening the world heritage status of the Orkney Islands off the northeastern coast of Scotland. Extreme weather and a warming climate has wiped away 600 meters (2,000 feet) of coastline from a 14th-century center for shipbuilding and trade on the east coast of England, according to research from the University of Sheffield.