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For the towns along the ancient road that were not included on the UNESCO list, the slight is about more than hurt pride. When Maria Innamorato heard last month that [...]

Byline: Adela Suliman In Greece, Aigai, one of the most important ancient royal capitals and the place where Alexander the Great was crowned, will reopen to the public on Sunday [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch A U.N. committee voted Sunday to recognize ruins near the West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage site, a move that drew backlash from Israel, [...]

The fragile Italian city has taken steps to reduce the impacts of climate change and excessive tourism, but some experts said the moves were not enough. Venice will not be [...]

The Black Sea port has been battered by Russian shelling for months. The United Nations cultural agency, UNESCO, designated the historic center of Odesa as a World Heritage Site and [...]

SAN ANTONIO -- Raymond Hernandez was a boy when his grandfather would take him on walks to the Alamo, pointing at the grounds around the Spanish mission founded in the [...]

Byline: Rachel Pannett SYDNEY - The Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of world heritage sites that are 'in danger,' according to United Nations officials, a move [...]

Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan LAKE BAIKAL, Russia - The Lake Baikal ice was the real star even among a gathering of some of Russia's hockey greats. The ice in the Siberian [...]

Byline: Liza Weisstuch It sounds like the setup of a riddle: What do the grass-mowing custom in Bosnia and Finland's sauna culture have in common with Nar Bayrami, a pomegranate [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK, Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Lead A Canadian oil company's drilling plans in a remote region of Southern Africa could endanger two World Heritage sites in Botswana, including the [...]

Byline: Kim Bellware As historic floods inundated Venice more than half a century ago, one reader in Scotland wrote to the Guardian newspaper in London to express worry about the [...]

Byline: Staff Abstract: And in Somalia, terrorist group Al Shabab is working to ban single-use plastics and the cutting down of trees. Micronesia, officials are looking for help in preserving [...]

Santa Fe, N.M. -- In the remote high desert of northwestern New Mexico lie the threatened ruins of Chaco Canyon, arguably the most significant cultural site on public land in [...]

JERUSALEM -- Unesco, the United Nations cultural organization, declared the ancient and hotly contested core of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as a Palestinian World Heritage site in danger [...]

BAYKALSK, Russia -- Toilets are the talk of Lake Baikal these days, at least among the ecologically minded. For years, their main bogyman was the Soviet-era Baykalsk Paper and Pulp [...]

Byline: Mengqi Sun The ancient 'pearl of the desert,' Palmyra, has witnessed another destruction of its heritage, according to Syrian officials. After re-capturing the Syrian city in December, militants from [...]

Byline: Vidhi Doshi NEW DELHI -- The historic Red Fort in the center of New Delhi has been 'adopted' by Indian conglomerate Dalmia Bharat Group, sparking fresh outrage over the [...]

Byline: JAMIE SMYTH, FINANCIAL TIMES ICN occasionally publishes (https://www.ft.com/content/09b109a4-c587-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9) Financial Times articles to bring you more international climate reporting. Australia has downgraded the outlook for the Great Barrier Reef to [...]

PISA, Italy -- A deadly plague haunts Venice, and it's not the cholera to which Thomas Mann's character Gustav von Aschenbach succumbed in the Nobel laureate's 1912 novella ''Death in [...]

Byline: Ben Guarino The catastrophes seem like the stuff Roland Emmerich's dreams are made of: In the United States, Yellowstone National Park morphs from thick woods to sparser brushland in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDCultural organizations have been working to create precise three-dimensional digital models of the threatened heritage monuments in Palmyra, Syria, in case the originals are damaged beyond repair. Near the [...]

QASSIARSUK, Greenland -- Carl and Ellen Frederiksen gazed anxiously at a spot on the snow-flecked mountain behind their village. The sheepdogs had been running back and forth, and they feared [...]

Byline: Meredith Hamilton Millions of couples travel to Paris each year to experience the city's iconic landmarks and eat in the small cafes that line the winding, cobble-stoned streets. Most [...]

Byline: Dominique Soguel A lightning Islamic State offensive in the central Syrian Desert has put the jihadist group at the gates of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO world [...]

A chilling report recently released by WWF (formerly World Wildlife Fund) has found that nearly half of the world's UNESCO-designated natural World Heritage Sites are threatened by industrial activities including [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Fighting between Syrian insurgents and government forces in Aleppo left one of the Middle East's most storied mosques severely damaged on Wednesday, its soaring minaret toppled by [...]

MONT-ST.-MICHEL, France -- A dispatch in The New York Times in August 1944 described the view of Mont-St.-Michel that American soldiers saw, ''racing their tanks across the Norman hills into [...]

Byline: Stephen Kurczy All was quiet on the Thailand-Cambodia front Tuesday, for the first day since fighting erupted five days ago along their disputed border near the 11th century Preah [...]

Byline: Jayne Clark, Kitty Bean Yancey, Laura Bly The National World War II Museum in New Orleans unveils a major expansion Nov. 6 with the debut of a new movie [...]

Byline: PATRICK WHITE WORLD HERITAGE SITE WINNIPEG -- With four days remaining in his decade-long reign, outgoing Manitoba Premier Gary Doer made a significant contribution toward his legacy yesterday, pledging [...]