"Stonehenge eroding under the forces of extreme weather. The city of Venice slowly collapsing into its canals. The gradual flooding of the Statue of Liberty.

Images like these, familiar from Hollywood climate-catastrophe thrillers, were evoked by a joint report, released on Thursday by Unesco, the United Nations Environment Program and the Union of Concerned Scientists, that detailed the threat climate change could pose to World Heritage sites on five continents.

(The Guardian reported on Thursday that the Australian continent was originally included in the report, but that its government requested it be removed because of concerns that the information would hurt its tourism industry.)"

Jonah Bromwich reports for the New York Times May 26, 2016. [2]

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