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Australia tried to influence other countries and Unesco to keep Great Barrier Reef off in-danger list
Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia show a sustained strategy approved by environment minister Tanya Plibersek
Graham Readfearn Environment and climate correspondent
31, Jan, 2025 @2:00 PM

Testament to Spain’s golden age to open up its secret spaces after €6m revamp
Unesco-listed San Lorenzo de El Escorial was fulfilment of Philip II’s dream of raising monastery in a ‘desert’
Sam Jones in San Lorenzo de El Escorial
30, Dec, 2024 @5:00 AM

Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco
Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it
Dan Milmo Global technology editor
26, Nov, 2024 @3:00 PM

South Carolina’s Penn Center included in Unesco network to preserve enslaved people’s history
Center was one of the first US schools for formerly enslaved people, and now preserves Gullah Geechee culture
Melissa Hellmann
29, Oct, 2024 @1:09 PM

Taurine torpor: bullfighting’s non-fatal French cousin fights for survival
Picasso and Hemingway believed folk sports like the course camarguaise were the height of European culture. Facing financial struggles, rowdy spectators and animal rights concerns, can its practitioners keep the custom alive?
Phil Hoad
03, Oct, 2024 @8:11 AM

The Guardian view on the invention of prehistory: telling the story before records began | Editorial
Editorial: The study of Göbekli Tepe, the entombed wonder of the ancient world, shows how things can be as important as words
Editorial
25, Aug, 2024 @5:25 PM

Protests over mass tourism could spread beyond Spain, says Unesco official
Situation ‘out of balance’ as local people are priced out of housing and frustrated by hordes of selfie-seekers
Ashifa Kassam in Madrid
09, Aug, 2024 @11:00 AM

Bog ugly, but totally magnificent: peatlands are finally getting the respect they deserve | Sophie Yeo
Scotland’s Flow Country is the first peatland to become a world heritage site – reassigning nature its leading role, says author Sophie Yeo
Sophie Yeo
09, Aug, 2024 @10:00 AM

Ancient Roman Appian Way becomes Italy’s 60th Unesco world heritage site
Highway that consolidated Roman empire joins modernist Romanian sculptures as latest sites added to list
Angela Giuffrida in Rome
28, Jul, 2024 @1:38 PM

Northern Scotland’s Flow Country becomes world heritage site
Planet’s largest blanket bog is first peatland to be designated by Unesco after 40-year campaign
Severin Carrell and Lisa O'Carroll
26, Jul, 2024 @3:02 PM

How the Observer helped save Scotland’s bogs from destruction | Geoffrey Lean
The Flow Country is to gain Unesco world heritage status years after the area was being destroyed in a tax break scheme, and thanks to campaigners, Nigel Lawson – and this newspaper
Geoffrey Lean
21, Jul, 2024 @5:30 AM

Durham in decline? Take another look, Benjamin Myers | Letter
Letters: Durham is a world heritage city and culture county that is changing fast, write Cllr Amanda Hopgood, Mary Kelly Foy MP and Prof Karen O’Brien
17, Jul, 2024 @4:56 PM
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