Report: Climate Change Is Messing With the Smithsonian Collections – Due to climate change, the museums’ collections are ‘extremely vulnerable to flooding’
https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/11/29/the-smithsonian-climate-change-flooding-risk-collections-threatened/ BY JASON FONTELIEU The New York Times published a distressing dispatch from the Smithsonian on Thanksgiving last week, saying that due to climate change, the museums’ collections are “extremely vulnerable to flooding, and some [buildings] could eventually be underwater.” The story says the two main threats to the Smithsonian are the Potomac River, which will eventually flood parts […]