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Paris – Almost three quarters of the Globus cultural and natural cultural heritage are threatened by too little or too much water, the UN cultural authority said on Tuesday. As a result of increasing temperatures, extreme weather events such as hurricanes, droughts, floods and heat waves have become more frequent and more intensive, warn scientists.

Seventy percent of all 1,172 non-marine locations on the UNESCO cultural list are at least one severe water risk exposed to water stress, drought, river flooding or flooding on the coast, said UNESCO.

“Water stress is expected to be intensified, especially in regions such as the Middle East and North Africa, parts of South Asia and Long-term risks for ecosystems, cultural heritage as well as the communities and tourism economies that depend on them,” added.

This photo, which was taken on July 18, 2023, shows flooded banks of the Yamuna river along the Taj Mahal in Agra. /Credit: Pawan Sharma/AFP/Getty

This photo, which was taken on July 18, 2023, shows flooded banks of the Yamuna river along the Taj Mahal in Agra. /Credit: Pawan Sharma/AFP/Getty

Cultural sites were most often threatened by water shortages, while more than half of the natural sites were exposed to the risk of flooding from a nearby river, the UNESCO study showed.

In India, the Taj Mahale monument in Agra is, for example, “the water shortage that increases environmental pollution and shakes the groundwater, both of which damage the mausoleum,” says the study.

In the United States “a massive one in 2022 Flood has closed the entire Yellowstone National Park And cost over 20 million US dollars of infrastructure repairs to reopen. “

After historical floods in Yellowstone National Park, the Gardner River weaves a new channel through washed -out sections of the Nordringstraße, which forced it to close it in Gardiner, Montana on June 19, 2022. / Credit: Getty

After historical floods in Yellowstone National Park, the Gardner River weaves a new channel through washed -out sections of the Nordringstraße, which forced it to close it in Gardiner, Montana on June 19, 2022. / Credit: Getty

The report gave four other examples.

The southern swamps of Iraq – the alleged home of the Biblical Garden of Eden – “are exposed to extremely high water, where over 80 percent of the renewable offer is withdrawn to meet human demand,” he added.

And the competition for water is expected to increase in the swamps in which hiking birds live and the residents increased buffalo, since the region will be hotter in the coming years.

On the border between Sambia and Zimbabwe, the Victoria was found in the fall of Mo-Oa-Tunya (the smoke that was called thunder “before being renamed the Scottish explorer David Livingstone and sometimes reduced to a trickle.

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 culminated in the 15th century. / Credit: iStockphoto

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 culminated in the 15th century. / Credit: iStockphoto

In Peru, the Precolumbian city of Chan Chan and its tender 1,000 year old Adobe walls are facing an extremely high risk of river flooding, said UNESCO.

In China, the rising sea level leads to a large extent, which is powered by climate change, to floods on coasts, which destroys Mudlands, where hiking water birds find food.

The specific warning of floods and drought is about a decade after an independent scientific study that 720 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Statue of Liberty and the Tower of London,. could be consumed by rising seas Within 2,000 years if the climate continues to heat to current installments.

Calculated in the study Range in the latest UN report projected projected With regard to climate change, which predicted that there is a probability of 97% for 2-degree warming and a 37% chance of average heating of 3 degrees Celsius without significant political changes.

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