List of landmarks destroyed or damaged by climate change

This is a list of significant natural or man-made landmarks that have been destroyed or damaged as a direct result or byproduct of anthropogenic climate change, such as by increased sea levels, exceptional rainfall or 100-year flooding, wildfires, and other exceptional natural disasters specifically linked to anthropogenic climate change.

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Destroyed +List of natural and man-made landmarks destroyed by anthropogenic climate changeLandmarkLocationDescriptionDestructionDate ImpactedReferenceDouble ArchGlen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah190 million-year-old sandstone geological formation Collapsed due to changing water levels and erosion9 August 2024Big Chico Creek Ecological ReserveButte County, California~7,800-acre (3,200 ha) property owned and used for educational purposes by Chico State UniversityAlmost completely destroyed by the Park Fire worsened by an ongoing heatwave. Destruction included a historic barn and university offices.Late July 2024St. Mary & St. George Anglican ChurchJasper, Alberta, CanadaHeritage Anglican church constructed in 1914Destroyed in the Jasper wildfire24 July 2024Kellogg HouseRich Bar in Plumas County, CaliforniaGhost town building containing original furnishings from the 1800sDestroyed in the Dixie Fire23 or 24 July 2021White Sulphur SpringsNapa County, CaliforniaOldest warm mineral springs resort facility in Northern California, founded in 1852Destroyed in the Glass FireOctober 2020Zhenhai BridgeTunxi District of Huangshan City, ChinaMing dynasty-era large stone arch bridge and "Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level in Anhui"Destroyed in the 2020 China floods7 July 2020Lecheng BridgeSanxi Town of Jingde County, ChinaQing dynasty stone arch bridge and Provincial Cultural Relics Protection landmarkDestroyed in the 2020 China floods by torrential mountain downpours6 July 2020Honey Run Covered BridgeButte County, CaliforniaThe last three-span Pratt-style truss bridge in the U.S., built in 1886 and on the National Register of Historic PlacesDestroyed in the Camp Fire, worsened by extreme weather conditions8 November 2018

Damaged +List of natural and man-made landmarks damaged by anthropogenic climate changeLandmarkLocationDescriptionDestructionDate ImpactedReferencePyramidal structure in IhuatzioIhuatzio, MexicoPyramid in the Ihuatzio Archaeological Zone, First seat of the Purépecha empire from 1200 to 1521 CE.Heavy rainfall causing the collapse of the structure's central southern end29 July 2024Great Mosque of SamarraSamarra, Iraq9th-century mosqueMinaret weathered by more frequent and intense sandstorms Temple of IshtarBabylon, IraqTemple in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon, capital of the Babylonian EmpireSalt accumulation from dried saltwater rivers causing cracking of the structure's bricksTabo monasterySpiti valley, IndiaTibetan Buddhist monastery established in 996 CE and expanded in the 11th century CE. Damage to ancient murals and mud walls due to increased incidence of rainfall due to climate change in the Spiti valley cold desert. Since the early 2000s

List of landmarks destroyed or damaged by climate change

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