Another new update to the World Heritage list was the Peruaçu River Canyon in Minas Gerais, Brazil, a stunning canyon with ...

Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by ...

A total of 26 new sites were added to the UNESCO World Heritage list this year, 21 of which are of cultural importance to ...

Thirty-two historically and culturally significant sites have just joined the illustrious ranks of UNESCO World Heritage List ...

UNESCO World Heritage recognition has been given to seven new areas as World Heritage, following IUCN advice. Africa shone ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is considered to have cultural or natural heritage of outstanding value to humanity.

These 12 Maratha forts, built between the 1600s and 1800s, are now recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Sites for their ...

But now, that familiar forest has a new title — one that puts it on par with Mount Kinabalu and the ancient caves of Niah. As ...

The World Heritage listing raises timely questions, such as whether we might see nominations for sites from Australia’s own ...

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

A new analysis by UNESCO and World Resources Institute (WRI) reveals that 73% of World Heritage sites are highly exposed to ...