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Fears for Bagan’s towering Buddhist temples after Myanmar earthquake
City is close to Sagaing faultline and monuments were significantly damaged after the last earthquake in 2016
Kevin Rushby
28, Mar, 2025 @5:10 PM
Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2 billion people, says UN
Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis, threatening ecosystems, agriculture and water sources
Fiona Harvey Environment editor
20, Mar, 2025 @11:00 PM
‘We cleared rubble with our bare hands’: Iraqis rejoice as shattered Mosul rises from the ruins
City damaged during occupation by Islamic State group reopens 850-year-old mosque in time for Ramadan as reconstruction gathers pace
Marta Bellingreri in Mosul
02, Mar, 2025 @5:00 AM
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
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