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U.S. Landmarks at Risk

Climate change poses risks to landmark historic sites around the United States, including the nation’s iconic landmarks and national treasures, including places where the “first Americans” lived, the Spaniards ruled, English colonists landed, slavery rose and fell, and gold prospectors struck it rich. Some of the sites also commemorate more modern “firsts,” such as the race to put the first man on the moon.

Credit: National Landmarks at Risk: How Rising Seas, Floods, and Wildfires Are Threatening The United States’ Most Cherished Historic Sites, originally published in Environment and Energy Study Institute, 20 May 2014, (CC BY 4.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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