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Albania's UNESCO site faces pollution and over-development raising serious concerns

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Pollution, tourism heap pressure on Albania's new UNESCO site

New England courts become a battleground for challenges to Trump A federal judge in Boston had some pointed words for Donald Trump as he issued one of the dozens of decisions by courts in four New ...
Reuters

In Albania's new UNESCO site, environmental worries abound

UNESCO designates Vjosa valley as a biosphere reserve Environmentalists express concerns over pollution and riverbed alterations Albania plans 150 million euros for sewage treatment and landfill ...
Mongabay

Indonesia aims to redraw UNESCO site boundaries to allow geothermal projects

Indonesia is proposing to redraw the boundaries of a UNESCO World Heritage rainforest, excluding two degraded areas, in order to free up geothermal potential in the region. Geothermal, which draws ...
WOSU Public Media

Two years after designation, UNESCO site sheds its golf course trappings

Two years ago, eight earthworks became Ohio’s first UNESCO World Heritage site. At the time, one of those locations, the Octagon Earthworks in Newark, was still being used as a private golf club. That ...
CNN

New landmarks added to UNESCO's world heritage sites

On today's CNN10: We'll learn about the newest round of awe-inspiring landmarks being added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites. Then, we'll investigate an ancient discovery raising eyebrows in ...
Morning Call PA

Newly minted Moravian UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bethlehem appoints first-ever site manager

The Moravian Church Settlements in Bethlehem, a year after receiving its coveted UNESCO World Heritage Site status, has appointed its first official site manager to oversee the historic museums, ...
ArchDaily

UNESCO Adds 26 New World Heritage Sites Highlighting African Heritage and Shared Prehistory

Xixia Imperial Tombs in China. Image © Rita Willaert via Flikr, unedr license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Diy-Gid-Biy Cultural Landscape of the Mandara Mountains in Cameroon ...
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26 new UNESCO World Heritage sites inscribed

The 47th session of the World Heritage Committee came to a close in Paris with the inscription of 26 new cultural and natural properties on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Once again this year, the ...
Condé Nast Traveler

The US Is Leaving UNESCO: Here’s What Comes Next

Iconic sites like the Statue of Liberty and Grand Canyon are among the 26 UNESCO World Heritage sites in the United States that stand to be affected by the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw ...
Yahoo

This Caribbean Island’s Sunken City Was a Pirate Stronghold—and Now It’s a New UNESCO World Heritage Site

UNESCO just added Port Royal to its World Heritage Site list for its deep cultural and historical importance to Jamaica and the Caribbean. Once a pirate stronghold, the city was destroyed in a 1692 ...