NEW YORK: Almost 14,000 archaeological sites and national monuments in the United States could be lost by the year 2100 as seas rise due to climate change, scientists said on Wednesday. The findings offer a glimpse into the vast amount of global cultural heritage that could be destroyed, the study said.
One in 10 archaeological sites that it analysed on nine southeastern coastal states risk inundation. "The data are sobering: projected sea level rise ...will result in the loss of a substantial portion of the record of both pre-Columbian and historic period human habitation," the authors said in the journal PLoS ONE.
"(There are) serious concerns over the threat of global climate change to the archaeological and historic record. "Scientists predict sea levels are on track to surge by an average of one meter globally by 2100.
12-01-2017, 02:50 PM
?Rising seas will swallow 14,000 US historic sites?
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