Addressing the impacts that climate change and sea level rise will bring requires both policy makers and the preservation community to be flexible and willing to consider nontraditional solutions, such as moving buildings, raising them, or using newer, experimental approaches and building materials. To protect the old, we must embrace the new in the face of forces bigger than ourselves.
Read more about how two of our National Treasures are experiencing the damaging effects of climate change, and how the National Trust and its partners are working on solutions that can provide lessons for other historic places, too.