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Evidence acidic pollution is damaging ancient rock art

Industrial emissions are likely to have degraded the world's largest and most diverse collection of Aboriginal rock art engravings, researchers warn.

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Fanon at 100: reflecting on a revolutionary legacy

This season of Spotlight on Africa concludes ahead of the summer break with a focus on Frantz Fanon in the year of his centenary. It also highlights a groundbreaking new report by UNESCO on the state of the publishing industry across the continent.

Radio France Internationale

Dutch Art Sleuth Recovers Stolen Trove Of UNESCO-listed Documents

A Dutch art sleuth has recovered a priceless trove of stolen documents from the 15th to the 19th century, including several UNESCO-listed archives from the world's first multinational corporation.

International Business Times

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What Australia must do to overturn objections for WA rock art to attain UN heritage status

Environment minister will lobby committee to place Murujuga on world heritage list despite concerns about ‘degrading acidic emissions’ from industrial sites

The Guardian - AU

New bid for ancient rock art's World Heritage listing

Australia is making another push for ancient rock art sites to be placed on the World Heritage list after its application was sent back over pollution concerns.

AAP

'We have to think bigger': Majority of UNESCO World Heritage sites face severe water risk

UNESCO World Heritage sites, including the Taj Mahal and Acropolis, are increasingly under threat from severe water hazards, a new report reveals.

Euronews

Murray Watt ramps up lobbying efforts in last-minute push to get Murujuga rock art on world heritage list

Exclusive: Environment minister hosts ambassadors before Paris meeting, aiming to convince at least one member to move decisive amendment

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The best mountain breaks in Europe to escape blistering summer heatwaves

As the continent continues to sizzle, resorts at higher altitudes offer some respite

The Independent UK

How untold stories in African languages could turn the page on publishing

African stories and languages could unlock billions for the continent’s publishing industry if governments back local writers, a Unesco report has found. Africa’s book market, now worth $7 billion, could reach $18bn with more homegrown books in local languages.

Radio France Internationale

Unesco warns majority of World Heritage sites at risk from drought or flooding

Almost three-quarters of the world's cultural and natural heritage sites are under threat from drought or flooding as a result of global warming, the United Nations cultural agency said this week.

Radio France Internationale

Whale Valley: The whale graveyard in the Sahara desert that shows they once had feet and toes

Egypt's Whale Valley, or "Wadi Al-Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures from land-based to marine animals.

LiveScience

Justice for Daft Punk? Emmanuel Macron calls for French touch to get UNESCO cultural heritage status

If Berlin techno can make the UNESCO cultural heritage list, so can French touch... "We are the inventors of electro. We have that French touch," the French President said in a recent interview.

Euronews

“We are the inventors of electro”: Emmanuel Macron wants French house to be added to UNESCO heritage list

It would join German techno and Jamaican reggae

MusicRadar

Glamour, Gripes As Celebs Head To Venice For Exclusive Bezos Wedding

Celebrities in superyachts sail into Venice this week for the three-day wedding party of Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, despite irate locals who say the UNESCO city is no billionaire's playground.

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Taal Lake: The volcanic crater that has 'an island within a lake, within an island within a lake, within an island'

Taal Lake on Luzon Island in the Philippines is a volcanic crater lake with a rare geology of nested islands and water.

The Guardian - UK

Ending sheep farming in the Lake District is not our aim

Letter: Lee Schofield responds to a letter writer who said ecologists want to see ‘sheep farming’s demise’ in their campaign for the area to lose its world heritage status

The National (Scotland)

Former schoolhouse in Highlands Unesco World Heritage site hits the market for £120k

A former schoolhouse within one of the Scotland's newest Unesco World Heritage Sites in the Highlands is on sale for offers of more than £120,000…

The Independent UK

The world’s most beautiful restaurants have been revealed for 2025 – these US eateries make the list

The accolade was bestowed upon two recently opened properties in New York City and Miami Beach by the Unesco Prix Versailles competition

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How Singapore forged a world-class food scene over 60 years – from hawker markets to Michelin stars

Six decades after Singapore achieved independence, Tamara Hinson discovers how to feast on local flavours

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Trump demands Iran ‘surrender’, Watt reveals rock art lobbying, Bowen promises power bill reform

US president lays out terms and says US won’t kill supreme leader ‘for now’; minister hopes for reversal of WA heritage listing decision

The Guardian - AU

Murray Watt ‘personally lobbied’ Unesco over barring of WA rock art from world heritage list

Speaking to Guardian Australia, the environment minister said the report had been ‘clearly influenced’ by environment campaigners

The Conversation

Cape York deserves World Heritage status – and Queensland may need it to become a global leader in tourism

Last week, the Queensland government launched the ambitious Destination 2045 tourism plan, which aims to make the state a global leader in tourism. The plan highlights that one in six jobs in tropical north Queensland are supported by tourism.

The Conversation

Ice Age shelter high up in the Blue Mountains reveals Aboriginal heritage from 20,000 years ago

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ridgelines and mountain peaks laden in snow and ice.

The Independent UK

Women’s Euros host cities and towns in Switzerland: Where they are and how to visit

The charming lakeside towns and cities of Switzerland are set to host this year’s Women’s Euros

Euronews

Foraging chef's forest finds fill restaurant plates on Isle of Man UNESCO biosphere

Rather than using rare ingredients to impress diners, Pippa Lovell’s uses invasive species in her dishes to help the Isle of Man’s biodiversity.

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