Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Global warming threat to heritage

http://tinyurl.com/ygolnr (today.reuters.co.uk)
"Global warming is threatening archaeological sites from Peru to Egypt as well as natural wonders such as the Caribbean's largest coral reef, a U.N. report said on Tuesday. . . . UNEP said fear of cultural losses, such as a Viking camp in Scotland at risk from erosion or rising seas threatening Alexandria in Egypt, was an extra reason for action to rein in a warming widely blamed on human use of fossil fuels."
See the two-page story at the above address.

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