World Heritage

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

Egor Gordeev/Unsplash

September 14, 2023

World Heritage Committee Ignores UNESCO Recommendation to List Venice as Endangered

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

A determined-looking turtle climbs up a section of Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Chad Taylor/Unsplash

September 13, 2023

A Climate Crossroads for the World Heritage Convention

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Adam Markham

May 24, 2021

Climate Change Threatens Africa’s Cultural Heritage

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Adam Markham

July 2, 2019

A New Way to Assess Impacts of Climate Change on World Heritage Sites

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Dan Broun

June 28, 2019

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

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Photo: Adam Markham

February 19, 2019

Chaco Canyon at Risk: Interior Nominee Bernhardt Wants to Drill on Lands Sacred to Tribes

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

Credit: USFWS

October 9, 2018

Half a Degree of Warming Could be the Difference Between Survival and Extinction for Many Species

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

An old whaling site on Svalbard, Norway. Photo: Adam Markham

June 29, 2018

Rapid Warming is Creating a Crisis for Arctic Archaeology

Adam Markham
Deputy Director of Climate and Energy

October 13, 2017

US Withdrawal from UNESCO Will Undermine Collaboration on Science and Culture

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

Credit: NPS

February 27, 2017

Will the US Choose to Be on the Right Side of History and Welcome Climate Refugees?

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