Global warming, war, development threaten historic sites
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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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Incomplete records and conflicting emotions within the black community make preserving African-American historical sites difficult.
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Ecologists fear that global warming will make protected landscapes  inhospitable to prized species.
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Increased tourism and nearby development could irreparably harm Jordan's ancient sandstone city.
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Even as the world's urban population explodes, many cities face potential extinction.
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THE future of the world&#39;s large wild mammals is threatened by pressures similar to those that caused the extinction of two-thirds of such species at the end of the most recent Ice Age.
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Earlier natural disasters in the 'Ring of Fire' have had global repercussions - and altered the course of history.
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Energy poses one of the greatest threats facing humanity this century, the world's leading academies of science warned Monday, highlighting the peril of oil wars and climate change driven by addiction to fossil fuels.
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By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop  Development is not always a one-way process of environmental destruction.
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Extreme weather, drought and spreading disease are on the horizon if something isn't done to rein in the human impact on the environment, a new study says. By the Associated Press.
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Many climate systems will undergo a series of sudden shifts this century as a result of human-induced climate change.
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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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A sizable growth in tourism has had a sizable effect on the fragile ecosystem of the GalÃ¡pagos Islands, the globeâs first World Heritage Site.
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Cities around the world are facing the danger of rising seas and other disasters related to climate change.
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Researchers examining ancient tree-ring records have linked prolonged periods of epic drought in the West with warmer temperatures, suggesting that global warming could promote long-term drought in the interior West.
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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes.
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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.