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Climate change doesn't just threaten our future - it threatens our past, too

Hadrian's Wall at Walltown Crags in Northumbria (Getty)

View of Hadrian's Wall (Unesco World Heritage List, 1987), Walltown Crags, Northumberland, UK Source: Getty / DEA / S. VANNINI/De Agostini via Getty Images

The peat bogs that preserve so many treasures around Hadrian's Wall in the UK are drying up and shrinking back - the ground is literally sinking.



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