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Culture versus climate: how global heating endangers Unesco heritage sites

Mont Saint-Michel and its surrounding bay were listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1979.
Mont Saint-Michel and its surrounding bay were listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1979. © Reuters - Pascal Rossignol

Unesco World Heritage sites in France and around the world are under threat from the climate crisis. From ancient cities to medieval abbeys, floods, droughts, rising seas and wildfires are putting humanity’s most precious cultural heritage at risk.

A recent study published by France's EDHEC Climate Institute lists the 10 sites in the country most endangered by extreme weather that is being exacerbated by climate change.

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