Ancient Roman Appian Way becomes Italy’s 60th Unesco world heritage site
Highway that consolidated Roman empire joins modernist Romanian sculptures as latest sites added to list
Northern Scotland’s Flow Country becomes world heritage site
Planet’s largest blanket bog is first peatland to be designated by Unesco after 40-year campaign
How the Observer helped save Scotland’s bogs from destruction
Geoffrey Lean
Durham in decline? Take another look, Benjamin Myers
Ministers ‘inadequately briefed’ on alternatives to Stonehenge tunnel plan, lawyers argue
June 2024
Who says the Great Barrier Reef is not ‘in danger’?
Stonehenge likely to be put on world heritage danger list over tunnel plan
Set more ambitious climate targets to save Great Barrier Reef, Unesco urges Australia
Cape York’s step towards world heritage listing: what does it mean for the region, and what happens next?
‘This is monumental’: Australia takes first step to world heritage nomination for parts of Cape York
Scotland’s remote land of bogs and bugs in line for world heritage status
May 2024
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
‘Moai designs are getting lost’: extreme weather chips away at Easter Island statues
World Press Freedom Day 2024
Violent attacks against environmental journalists on the rise, report finds
April 2024
Venice access fee: what is it and how much does it cost?
The Guardian view on endangered languages: spoken by a few but of value to many
March 2024
Germany adds Berlin’s techno scene to Unesco cultural heritage list
List recognises techno scene’s contribution to Berlin’s cultural identity
February 2024
It’s unhenged: millions will be denied one of England’s greatest views
Simon Jenkins
A high court judge has ruled to allow the £1.7bn Stonehenge tunnel – and robbed motorists of a precious glimpse of something ancient, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
‘Everything beautiful has been destroyed’: Palestinians mourn a city in tatters
More than 200 buildings of cultural and historical significance have been reduced to rubble in Gaza, including mosques, cemeteries and museums
Australia ‘on track’ with climate targets needed to protect Great Barrier Reef, Labor tells Unesco
Federal and Queensland governments are trying to convince UN body not to add the reef to list of world heritage sites in danger
January 2024
Museum chief brands Florence a ‘prostitute’ over tourist numbers
Cecilie Hollberg sparks outrage in remarks about capital city of Tuscan region being ‘crushed by tourism’
