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Climate Change Threatens to Swamp 31 Iconic World Heritage Cultural Sites

Arthur Dominic Villasanta |

May 31, 2016 01:09 AM EDT

Iconic tourism sites are becoming more vulnerable to sea level rise and steadily hotter temperatures.

Tourists visit the Great Wall on the third day of the seven-day national day holiday, on the outskirts of Beijing, October 3, 2014.

Great Wall of China Attracts Record 8 Million Visitors In One Day During 'Golden Week'

Dan Weisman |

Oct 10, 2014 11:15 PM EDT

Golden Week, which celebrates in China lived up to its name this week when an estimated 16 million people turned the Great Wall of China into a veritable human traffic jam. Those numbers included 8 million people visiting the wall in one day, the most in one day since 2009. Accessible public sections designed for tourists last week were packed like Nanjing Road in Shanghai with wall-to-wall human traffic.