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Floods, humidity and rising temperatures caused by climate change threaten thousands of National Trust sites, the charity warns today. It has developed a 'game-changing' map to illustrate the risks facing some of its most famous and culturally significant sites. The tool is based on a 'worst-case scenario' failure to drive down carbon emissions over the coming decades, and highlights potential hazards in specific locations.   The likes of Ham House on the Thames, Lyme Park in Cheshire and Birling Gap in East Sussex are all feared to be in danger.  Floods, humidity and rising temperatures c...

play-icon Video report by ITV News Wales and West Correspondent Rupert Evelyn The National Trust has revealed which of its sites are most at risk from climate change in an interactive map. Among the areas under threat are Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway and Ham House in London. The "game changer" map reveals several stately homes, landscapes and coastline that are all at different levels of risk from climate change. The mapping tool outlines threats posed by climate impacts including extreme heat and humidity, landslides, high winds, and floods, and how they could change by 2060. The map ...

Lucy Worsley as a student  If a crustless ham sandwich, a Capri-Sun and a packet of Skips are your equivalent of Proust’s madeleine, winging you back through time to your smaller self on a school trip, then spare a thought for today’s children.  Covid means a whole generation of school kids will have a blank space where memories of outward-bound weeks in the Lakes should sit nostalgically for life. Even those interminable bi-annual trips to the same, dreary, local museum now seem a luxury. Everyone has their personal litany of museums, ancient monuments and even unexotic continental loc...