The effects of climate change are evident in most parts of the world, and no part, no matter how prosperous, is immune. Large tracts of America’s east coast are at from being wiped out by sea level rise. This threatens not only the nation’s heritage, but the people who the area, as you may have imagined. The oceans are set to imperil more than 13,000 archaeological and historic sites, according to new research. Even a modest increase in sea level will have an It will endanger much of the south-eastern US’s heritage by the end of the century, researchers , with 13,000 sites threatened by a 1m increase. Thousands more will be threatened as the seas continue to climb in the years beyond this. This will the potential relocation of the White House and Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and inundation of historic touchstones such as the Kennedy Space Center and St Augustine, Florida. That lays to being the oldest city in the US.