Over half the world’s 10-year-olds won’t have adequate literacy by year-end: Report
The learning poverty will substantially diminish global recruitment pool for skilled health workers by 2030
Climate crisis, tourism may place Venice on UNESCO heritage danger list
UN agency panel to discussion inclusion of Italian city in list on September 10-25, 2023
World Heritage Day 2024: Survival accuses UNESCO of being complicit in illegal eviction, abuse of indigenous people
Survival report lists six World Heritage Sites which it claims are on stolen Indigenous land; Kaziranga in Assam on list
24 new sites join UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves
A biosphere reserve is a site destined to reconcile the conservation of biodiversity and human activity through the sustainable use of natural …
More than half the world's most important natural sites are under threat: it's time to protect them
Many of the United Nations’ World Heritage sites are being rapidly destroyed in the pursuit of short-term economic goals
Filling in the "big picture"
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15 new UNESCO Geoparks in three continents reflect the glory of nature
From coastal cliffs in Canada to ‘rainbow’ mountains in China to one of Europe’s true deserts, the new locations reflect the grandeur, …
Pyramids in peril
Unfair share
Parched future
ECUADOR
Awarding the tyrant
Award>> Life Sciences ÔÇó Equatorial Guinea
Ancient wisdom
A new book provides an insight on sacred groves
The architecture & landscape of Santiniketan embrace nature as primary educator
Through architecture and principles of conservation, Santiniketan exemplifies the benefits of living in harmony with nature
Angola’s peatlands trap carbon and clean the region’s water — how we mapped this newly found landscape
High quality peatland extent data are only available for a small selection of countries and regions
Why Mount Kenya is burning and what can be done to stop the fires
The Kenyan biosphere reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
On air
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Special status for India in global village
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Barely surviving
With about 300 sq km almost stripped bare of forest cover, Africa's first national park battles for survival
UNESCO declares world’s first 5-country biosphere reserve in ‘Amazon of Europe’
The 1-million hectare Mura-Drava-Danube is the now the largest riverine protected area in Europe
Integration of culture with urban strategies can make cities sustainable
Culture is what makes cities attractive and creative. Sans culture, cities are merely concrete and steel constructions prone to social and …
The fight to save Moenjodaro
A worldwide initiative to save the ancient city is trying to lower the water table around it and bind back the Indus before it gets washed away
Protect world heritage sites to conserve biodiversity: UN
World heritage sites house 20% of mapped global species
UNESCO Director-General deplores fires in Mount Kenya National Park
Offers full help and assistance to Nairobi so that such an incident does not recur