Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by ...

T he United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named 26 new sites to the World Heritage ...

A total of 26 new sites were added to the UNESCO World Heritage list this year, 21 of which are of cultural importance to ...

Thirty-two historically and culturally significant sites have just joined the illustrious ranks of UNESCO World Heritage List ...

UNESCO World Heritage recognition has been given to seven new areas as World Heritage, following IUCN advice. Africa shone ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is considered to have cultural or natural heritage of outstanding value to humanity.

Gingee Fort, or Senji Fort, the largest fort in Tamil Nadu, covering 2,700 acres and three hillocks in the Pakkamalai range ...

But now, that familiar forest has a new title — one that puts it on par with Mount Kinabalu and the ancient caves of Niah. As ...

UNESCO, Church of England Pensions Board, Greenbank, IUCN, and WWF Call for stronger investor action and industry commitments. A new report launched today, “Extractive Activities in UNESCO World ...

The World Heritage listing raises timely questions, such as whether we might see nominations for sites from Australia’s own ...

From Yellowstone to the Garden of Eden, almost 75% of the world's heritage sites at risk of drought or flooding, U.N. warns.

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...