(CN) — Time to tick off another unfortunate consequence of the Earth’s warming temperatures due to climate change, as melting Arctic permafrost is causing heritage sites to degrade and deteriorate, making it more difficult for scientists to collect data and perform analyses at important historical locations.
A new study, published Wednesday in the open-access journal PLOS One, details the changes of cultural heritage sites, including the 17th-century “whaler’s graveyard” in Likneset, on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago near the North Pole and one of the northernmost inhabited areas in the world.
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