{"id":35829,"date":"2025-07-01T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/from-yellowstone-to-the-garden-of-eden-climate-change-puts-majority-of-world-heritage-sites-at-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:47:04","slug":"from-yellowstone-to-the-garden-of-eden-climate-change-puts-majority-of-world-heritage-sites-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/from-yellowstone-to-the-garden-of-eden-climate-change-puts-majority-of-world-heritage-sites-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"From Yellowstone to the Garden of Eden, climate change puts majority of world heritage sites at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Paris <\/em>\u2014 Almost three quarters of the globe&#8217;s cultural and natural heritage sites are threatened by too little or too much water, the UN&#8217;s cultural agency said on Tuesday. As a result of rising temperatures, extreme weather events including hurricanes, droughts, floods and heatwaves have become more frequent and intense, scientists warn.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-three percent of all 1,172 non-marine sites on the UNESCO Heritage List are exposed to at least one severe water risk \u2014 including water stress, drought, river flooding or coastal flooding, UNESCO said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Water stress is projected to intensify, most notably in regions like the Middle East and North Africa, parts of South Asia and northern China \u2014 posing long-term risks to ecosystems, cultural heritage, and the communities and tourism economies that depend on them,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/07\/19\/2346e815-5b78-48c3-ac49-efb4e223d135\/thumbnail\/620x413\/a557792224c0406bbe674c0fd07770f9\/gettyimages-1539370667.jpg#\" alt=\"TOPSHOT-INDIA-FLOOD-WEATHER-CLIMATE \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/07\/19\/2346e815-5b78-48c3-ac49-efb4e223d135\/thumbnail\/620x413\/a557792224c0406bbe674c0fd07770f9\/gettyimages-1539370667.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/07\/19\/2346e815-5b78-48c3-ac49-efb4e223d135\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/adb28a922b7d567043217af51a6b2e16\/gettyimages-1539370667.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">This photograph taken on July 18, 2023 shows flooded banks of river Yamuna along the Taj Mahal in Agra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                PAWAN SHARMA\/AFP\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cultural sites were most commonly threatened by water scarcity, while more than half of natural sites faced the risk of flooding from a nearby river, the UNESCO study showed.<\/p>\n<p>In India, the Taj Mahal monument in Agra, for example, &#8220;faces water scarcity that is increasing pollution and depleting groundwater, both of which are damaging the mausoleum,&#8221; the study said.<\/p>\n<p>In the United State, &#8220;in 2022, a massive <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/yellowstone-national-park-flooding-north-entrance-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">flood closed down all of Yellowstone National Park<\/a><\/span> and cost over $20 million in infrastructure repairs to reopen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2022\/06\/20\/c8d388ee-6290-4f8f-9d47-4da0d30170e7\/thumbnail\/620x414\/c3937e29c43dbe5c627cc6e393db2b9f\/gettyimages-1241408180.jpg#\" alt=\"Flooding Temporarily Closes Yellowstone National Park \" height=\"414\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2022\/06\/20\/c8d388ee-6290-4f8f-9d47-4da0d30170e7\/thumbnail\/620x414\/c3937e29c43dbe5c627cc6e393db2b9f\/gettyimages-1241408180.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2022\/06\/20\/c8d388ee-6290-4f8f-9d47-4da0d30170e7\/thumbnail\/1240x828\/f790e79a540096d588f8feedcdab7f2e\/gettyimages-1241408180.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">The Gardner River weaves a new channel through washed out sections of North Entrance Road following historic flooding in Yellowstone National Park that forced it to shut down, June 19, 2022, in Gardiner, Montana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The report gave four more examples.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s southern marshes \u2014 the reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden \u2014 &#8220;face extremely high water stress, where over 80 percent of the renewable supply is withdrawn to meet human demand,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>And competition for water is expected to increase in the marshes, where migratory birds live and inhabitants raise buffalo, as the region grows hotter in coming years.<\/p>\n<p>On the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, the Victoria Falls \u2014 originally called Mosi-oa-Tunya (&#8220;the smoke that thunders&#8221;) before it was renamed by Scottish explorer David Livingstone \u2014 has faced recurring drought and is sometimes reduced to a trickle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2018\/04\/27\/5998d50c-5ea2-424c-9bfb-d97c8c5cec5d\/thumbnail\/620x413\/84d5acb9bd196d89aaa0f77f9cfbed0d\/peru-chan-chan-chimu.jpg#\" alt=\"ChanChan \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2018\/04\/27\/5998d50c-5ea2-424c-9bfb-d97c8c5cec5d\/thumbnail\/620x413\/84d5acb9bd196d89aaa0f77f9cfbed0d\/peru-chan-chan-chimu.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2018\/04\/27\/5998d50c-5ea2-424c-9bfb-d97c8c5cec5d\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/26306977abf85707a892bf58fab702dc\/peru-chan-chan-chimu.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Remains of the historic city of Chan Chan near Trujillo in Peru. The city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was the capital of the Chimu Kingdom which reached its apogee in the 15th Century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                iStockphoto<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Peru, the pre-Colombian city of Chan Chan and its delicate 1,000-year-old adobe walls face an extremely high risk of river flooding, UNESCO said.<\/p>\n<p>In China, rising sea levels driven in large part by climate change are leading to coastal flooding, which destroys mudlands where migratory waterbirds find food, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The specific warning over flooding and drought comes about a decade after an independent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/1748-9326\/9\/3\/034001\/article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scientific study<\/a>\u00a0found that 720 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Statue of Liberty and the Tower of London, 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