Researchers at Harvard University believe that some of the world's oldest mummies may be the latest casualty of man-made climate change.
Scientists from Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences told Bloomberg that a group of bodies mummified in Chile 7,000 years ago are deteriorating, and climate change is to blame.
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