CORAL TRANSPLANT SUCCESS COULD BE A RAY OF HOPE FOR THE GREAT BARRIER REEF

In 2016 coral bleaching killed more than a third of the Great Barrier Reef... READ MORE›

HOW QATAR CRISIS PLAYED A ROLE IN AZOULAY'S ELECTION AS UNESCO CHIEF

The US withdrawal was largely due to the country's view that UNESCO has an anti-Israel bias... READ MORE›

CHINA-US TOURISM EXCHANGE GETS A BOOST

By hosting this event, we hope to introduce China's world heritage sites to American tourists and provide an opportunity to deepen China-US tourism cooperation... READ MORE›

FRENCH AND QATARI CANDIDATES FACE OFF IN FINAL VOTE FOR TOP UNESCO JOB

Unfortunately, this venue has become politicised, undermining the work of UNESCO across its mandate... READ MORE›

US, ISRAEL TO QUIT UNESCO AT END OF 2018[1]

Since then, however, the United States has still maintained a UNESCO office at the organization's headquarters in Paris, France... READ MORE›

U.S., ISRAEL TO EXIT UNESCO, CITING BIAS AGAINST JEWISH STATE

While the Trump administration had been preparing for a likely withdrawal from UNESCO for months, the timing of the State Department's statement Thursday was unexpected... READ MORE›

US WITHDRAWS FROM UNESCO, ACCUSES THE ORGANISATION OF ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS

UNESCO, the cultural and educational agency of the United Nations, expressed regret over the United States' official decision to leave its organisation... READ MORE›

US TO PULL OUT OF UNESCO AMID PALESTINIAN TENSIONS

UNESCO's outgoing director-general, Irina Bokova of Bulgaria, called the U.S. departure a loss for the United Nations family and for multilateralism... READ MORE›

FRENCH, QATARI CANDIDATES NECK-AND-NECK IN RACE FOR UNESCO CHIEF

Had 18 votes apiece in the battle to replace outgoing UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova... READ MORE›

LIBYAN COMMUNITIES WANT SABRATHA WORLD HERITAGE SITE PROTECTED AMID FIGHTING

Director-General Irina Bokova said they remain committed to work with Libyan cultural professionals to put in place emergency measures to protect the heritage site... READ MORE›

'UNESCO-CIDE': DOES WORLD HERITAGE STATUS DO CITIES MORE HARM THAN GOOD?

For George Town and its clan jetties, the Unesco imprimatur seemingly provided a second wind... READ MORE›

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BREAKTHROUGH AS US AND CHINA AGREE TO RATIFY PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE DEAL

G20 summit us and china ratify paris agreement in major step for climate change fight... READ MORE›

TAX MEAT AND DAIRY TO CUT EMISSIONS AND SAVE LIVES, STUDY URGES

The researchers found climate taxes would save more than half a million early deaths every year, largely in Europe, the US, Australia and China... READ MORE›

2016 WILL BE THE HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD, UN SAYS

Because of climate change, the occurrence and impact of extreme events has risen, he said... READ MORE›

PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE AGREEMENT ENTERS INTO FORCE

The Paris agreement on climate change enters into force on Friday, marking the first time that governments have agreed legally binding limits to global temperature rises... READ MORE›

WORLD ON TRACK FOR 3C OF WARMING UNDER CURRENT GLOBAL CLIMATE PLEDGES, WARNS UN

Mass migration as a result of climate change is hard to separate from other causes of migration, but is predicted to become a much greater problem... READ MORE›

PARIS CLIMATE DEAL THROWN INTO UNCERTAINTY BY US ELECTION RESULT

Trump has called climate change a hoax, placing him virtually alone among world leaders on the validity of the science... READ MORE›

ISIS ATTACKS IRAQI ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Last week, Islamic State militants videotaped themselves destroying statues and artifacts in the Mosul Museum and at the Nergal Gate entryway to ancient Nineveh... READ MORE›

THE WORLD NOW SOUNDS DIFFERENT TO HOW IT DID A CENTURY AGO

Bernie Krause, one of the pioneers of soundscape ecology, has been recording habitats around the world since 1968... READ MORE›

MYANMAR IS RESTORING TEMPLES TO REBUILD ITS HERITAGE

It damaged 389 of Bagan's monuments, and broke Pyathat Gyi's spire as if it were one of her candies... READ MORE›

SCIENTISTS SAY A DRAMATIC WORLDWIDE CORAL BLEACHING EVENT IS NOW UNDERWAY

Coral reefs are expected to see ocean temperatures that can lead to bleaching sometime this year... READ MORE›

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION 'UNSTOPPABLE' DESPITE TRUMP

I am sure he will make a quick, wise decision, Ban said, saying that climate change was having severe impacts from the Arctic to Antarctica... READ MORE›

CARBONS CASUALTIES RESETTLING THE FIRST AMERICAN CLIMATE REFUGEES

The floods ruined the trailer's oven, so the family cooks on a hot plate... READ MORE›

WORLD HERITAGE FORESTS BURN AS GLOBAL TRAGEDY UNFOLDS IN TASMANIA

It concluded that lightning fires were now the main threat to the survival of the world heritage area... READ MORE›

ISIS BULLDOZING OF ANCIENT NIMRUD SITE IN IRAQ STIRS OUTRAGE

The agency said that screenshots of the Defense Department system had been posted online, apparently to prove that the cyberattack had been successful... READ MORE›

CLIMATE-RELATED DEATH OF CORAL AROUND WORLD ALARMS SCIENTISTS

The damage off Kiritimati is part of a mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world, only the third on record and possibly the worst ever... READ MORE›

MEXICO LAUNCHES PIONEERING SCHEME TO INSURE ITS CORAL REEF

A stretch of coral reef off Mexico is the testing ground for a new idea that could protect fragile environments around the world insurance... READ MORE›

WORLD NEEDS $90TN INFRASTRUCTURE OVERHAUL TO AVOID CLIMATE DISASTER, STUDY FINDS

These figures are estimates because the federal government stopped outlining its climate change budget in 2013... READ MORE›

'WHY IS THE WORLD SO QUIET?' YEMEN SUFFERS ITS OWN CRUEL LOSSES, FAR FROM ALEPPO.

KAWKABAN, Yemen -- The majestic fortress nestled atop a mountain here in northwestern Yemen survived the armies of the Islamic warrior Saladin in the 12th century... READ MORE›

CONSERVATIVES ELECTED TRUMP; NOW THEY OWN CLIMATE CHANGE

Furthermore, there are some conservatives who do take climate change seriously... READ MORE›

APRIL BREAKS GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RECORD, MARKING SEVEN MONTHS OF NEW HIGHS

They've triggered the third recorded global coral bleaching, and in Australia 93 percent of the reefs have been affected by bleaching along the 2,300km Great Barrier Reef... READ MORE›

COUNTRIES WITH CORAL REEFS MUST DO MORE ON CLIMATE CHANGE - UNESCO

The new decision builds on that assessment, clarifying the responsibility of countries with custodianship over world-heritage listed coral reefs... READ MORE›

EXPLOSION DESTROYS ANCIENT SITE IN YEMEN CAPITAL

Two weeks ago, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution aimed at thwarting and prosecuting antiquities vandals and smugglers... READ MORE›

PARIS AGREEMENT'S 1.5C TARGET 'ONLY WAY' TO SAVE CORAL REEFS, UNESCO SAYS

First global assessment of climate change impact on world heritage-listed reefs says local efforts are 'no longer sufficient'... READ MORE›

SUPPORT FOR WORLD-LEADING ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE SKYROCKETS, ACCORDING TO NEW POLL

Support for world-leading action on climate change skyrockets, according to new poll... READ MORE›

2 DEGREES CELSIUS: A CRITICAL NUMBER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

Framework Convention on Climate Change said in a statement... READ MORE›

GLOBAL EFFORTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE COULD BE SCUTTLED BY A TRUMP PRESIDENCY, ADVOCATES FEAR

Under President Barack Obama the U.S. has made climate change a priority, playing a key role in crafting the Paris climate agreement... READ MORE›

PARIS CLIMATE DEAL: WHERE US AND CHINA HAVE LED, OTHERS MUST QUICKLY FOLLOW

Otherwise the UK will go from being leader to laggard on climate change... READ MORE›

ISIS ARE HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING CENTURIES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE

The mining town's new neighbours who are half a world away... READ MORE›

CONVENTIONAL THINKING WILL NOT SOLVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Subsequently, work by the World Weather Attribution project estimated that the odds for that rainfall event were increased by 50-75 percent by climate change... READ MORE›

A reef campaigner with the Australian Marine Conservation Society, Felicity Wishart, said the report contained no measurable, deliverable action... READ MORE›