The Latest Breaking News from World Heritage

Government’s reef envoy says visiting scientists ‘have to see the good and the bad’ as widespread bleaching confirmed

The United Nations began a monitoring mission on the Great Barrier Reef Monday, assessing whether the World Heritage site is being protected from climate change as it suffers further widespread bleaching. Higher-than-average temperatures have again caused severe bleaching in parts of the reef, authorities confirmed last week, dashing hopes a…

The Great Barrier Reef has again been hit with "widespread" bleaching, authorities said Friday, as higher-than-average ocean temperatures off Australia's northeast threaten the already struggling World Heritage site. Surveillance flights over the reef revealed damage due to heat stress ranging from minor to severe bleaching across the 2,300-kilometre (1,243-mile) network…

Indigenous leaders in the World Heritage-listed Willandra Lakes Region are in dispute over federal government involvement in the re-burial of Mungo Man's 42,000-year-old human remains.

There are calls for the Queensland government to stop approving large, foreign-owned wind farm developments in the state's north, amid fears the area's flora and fauna could be devastated by land clearing.

Ukraine is home to seven World Heritage sites, including the 1,000-year-old St Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv. Experts warn that the culturally significant sites are at risk of being damaged as Russian troops advance on Ukraine's capital.

Ukraine is a country with a vast cultural heritage. It is dotted with sites of profound historic, artistic and archaeological importance – from Unesco world heritage monuments such as the Cathedral of St Sophia in Kyiv to exquisite examples of Cossack baroque architecture. But this rich cultural history is now…

The federal government will sign off on a multi-million-dollar deal to bring power to townships living among the World Heritage-listed Daintree rainforest in Far North Queensland.

People come to Tasmania's remote south-west for different reasons, but as the state government continues to encourage tourism development in national parks, is the right balance being struck between development and conservation?

In 1999, as a journalist working for this newspaper, I flew into Ukraine for a short trip to report on the situation there. In the throes of a financial crisis, soaring inflation had rendered their currency worthless, eight years after they had voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.…

For more than 40 years, an underground coal mine discharged poorly treated wastewater directly into the Wollangambe River, which flows through the heart of the Blue Mountains World Heritage area.