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IUCN finds climate top threat to UNESCO sites

Climate change is damaging one-third of the world’s UNESCO sites and has become the single-biggest threat they face, IUCN warned.

By Arete News - December 2, 2020

Great Barrier Reef's Eddy Reef off Mission Beach (AN/Paul Toogood)

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