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Cultural heritage matters when it comes to combating human-created climate change

By Chloe Veltman
Published September 12, 2023 at 1:44 PM PDT

Officials from UNESCO are meeting to decide if Venice, Italy, should be listed as an "endangered" world heritage site in part for climate-change-related reasons.

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Chloe Veltman
Chloe Veltman is a correspondent on NPR's Culture Desk.