Museums: We Need to Talk About Climate Change
Museums, like almost almost everything else, will be affected by changing temperatures, sea levels, shifting tourist seasons, and other climate change impacts. However, from their... Read More
Protect. Prepare. Conserve.
For obvious reasons, discussions about climate change and the built environment often begin with places where visible impacts can be seen and marked. Following Hurricane... Read More
Material Vulnerability & Climate Change
Historic structures were built to withstand the weather conditions of their immediate environments – but what happens when climate patterns change and sea levels rise? Researchers in the... Read More
Preservation Policy for a Changing World
How we choose to save the past has everything to do with the present.
Pop Quiz: Climate Impacts on Iconic Historic Sites
When you picture the effects of climate change, what comes to mind? Is it the polar ice caps melting? Stronger storms? Debilitating drought and water bans?
FloodList: Protecting Heritage Resources
From FloodList.com, December 21, 2016, written by Ed Hill. | Excerpt from article featuring Keeping History Above Water and 74 Bridge St Case Study Keeping... Read More
22 #CLIMATEACTIONS from COP22
Leading up to COP22, we posted 22 strategies to heritage sustainability, and we’ve rounded up all 22 #climateactions here as a springboard into cutting-edge research in... Read More
The Climate and Cultural Heritage Family Grows
COP22 – the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – is now taking place in Marrakech,... Read More
When Climate Changes Your Dinner Plate
Imagine the regional cuisines we love today without their fundamental ingredients — Italian dishes without tomato or New England clam chowder without clams…
Safeguarding Heritage Above and Below Water
Sea-level rise is a threat to historic buildings and structures along our coastlines, but shipwrecks and submerged sites are already underwater…so they’re safe, right? Maybe... Read More