Fund Lists Climate Change As Threat to Cultural Sites
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By Jayne Clark  For the first time, global climate change has joined political conflict and development pressures as an underlying threat to cultural heritage sites, as cataloged by the World Monuments Fund on its biennial list of the 100 most endangered places.
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Berkeley - A University of California, Berkeley, paleobiologist and his colleagues warn that the future of the Earth&#39;s mammals could be as dire as it was between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, when a combination of climate change and human pressure resulted
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Melting glaciers caused by climate change are posing an urgent threat to Mount Everest's unique environment, activists said Wednesday, launching a campaign to protect the Himalayan mountain range and the world's highest peak.
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By Steve Bloomfield  Climate change has become a major security issue that could lead to "a world going up in flames", the United Nations' top environment official has warned.
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By KIDSON, Sally  A national environmental advocacy group is warning the Tasman District Council that if it doesn't take steps to identify and protect outstanding natural landscapes, the Environment Court could decide for it.
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Policies to help society adapt to climate change are badly needed, says the chief of Britain's science festival.
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Rome's mighty Colosseum risks being  damaged and diminished by a major MTV rock concert,  traditionalists and conservationists warned on Thursday.
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Major heritage projects, from the National Gallery's attempted purchase of a set of Poussin masterpieces to the British Museum's proposed building of a new exhibition space, could be threatened because of lottery money diverted to the Olympics.
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Rising sea levels, disappearing glaciers in the Alps and more deadly heat waves are coming for Europeans because of global warming, Europeâs environmental agency warned Wednesday.
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Scholars from different disciplines are crossing lines to share ideas about reducing the threat of climate change.
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When a special space has become threatened, a collective force has been there ready to lend energy, money and time to preservation.
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The Galapagos Islands may have to be listed as "in danger" because tourism is threatening the environment that helped shape Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the chairman of Unesco's World Heritage Committee warned yesterday.
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ROME Italy&#39;s culture minister has threatened to shut down the Uffizi museum if the government does not scale back planned spending cuts.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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Bombs in Iraq, better commutes in Ireland and melting ice caps are threatening the world's architectural and cultural gems, a nonprofit group said on Wednesday as it named 100 endangered monuments.
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By Frederick Melo and Jennifer Bjorhus, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 6--It's all about the parks.   Faced with rising land costs and not enough money to buy parklands, the Metropolitan Council is launching a new fund-raising foundation.
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Despite some progress, the government's climate change research program is threatened by satellite and other cutbacks, a study says.