cultural heritage

January 3, 2024

COP28 Took Steps Toward Safeguarding Cultural Heritage from Climate Change

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Wild rice harvest on Mud Lake, Minnesota

US Army Corp of Engineers

November 27, 2023

Cultural Heritage is a Human Right. Climate Change is Fast Eroding It.

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

The temples at Abu Simbel in Egypt, shown with a crowd of tourists exploring them

Yungchin Li/FLickr

November 22, 2022

World Heritage at 50: Can We Give a Future to Our Past?

UCS Science Network

October 31, 2022

Cultural Heritage Loss and Damage Goes Ignored. This Needs to Change at COP27.

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

May 24, 2021

Climate Change Threatens Africa’s Cultural Heritage

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

June 28, 2019

It’s Time to Stop Ignoring the Climate Change Threat to World Heritage

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

July 3, 2018

Climate Change is the Fastest Growing Threat to World Heritage

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Panorama of the town of Keswick, nestled between the fells of Skiddaw and Derwent Water in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. Photo: David Iliff CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikicommons)

July 11, 2017

New World Heritage Sites Already Under Threat From Climate Change

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

U.S. Bureau of Land Management

April 26, 2017

President Trump's Assault on the Antiquities Act Signals Trouble for National Parks and Monuments

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Extreme rainfall events have severely damaged the adobe church at Tumacácori National Historic Park in Arizona. Photo: NPS

January 6, 2017

How Will the National Park Service Protect America’s Heritage from Climate Change?

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

December 13, 2016

Arctic Breaks Many Records – Arctic Report Card 2016

Brenda Ekwurzel
Senior Climate Scientist, Director of Climate Science

November 12, 2014

World Heritage Sites Among Many Cultural Resources Threatened by Climate Change

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy