Current:Home > StocksClimate change is un-burying graves. It's an expensive, 'traumatic,' confounding problem. -RiskWatch
Climate change is un-burying graves. It's an expensive, 'traumatic,' confounding problem.
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Date:2025-04-11 19:18:36
A delicate hand points heavenward on the carved headstone marking the grave of Sarah Ewen Stewart, “at rest” in her scenic island location on Florida’s Gulf Coast for more than 145 years.
The stone, tilted over time in the Cedar Key Cemetery, shows Sarah was born in 1809, at the dawn of the 19th century, when a flurry of inventions were about to launch the world’s industrial revolution. The first steam locomotive was patented in the U.S. the year she was born.
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