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Climate Change Speeds Up Loss of Historic Artifacts KQED's Climate Watch
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- Natural Sciences
Rising seas from warming oceans are generally seen as a threat to the future. But archaeologists are realizing that they're also a threat to the past. Coastal erosion is destroying Native American sites, including graves and places where people once cooked and camped.
Rising seas from warming oceans are generally seen as a threat to the future. But archaeologists are realizing that they're also a threat to the past. Coastal erosion is destroying Native American sites, including graves and places where people once cooked and camped.
5 min