The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ... What makes the concept of World Heritage exceptional is its universal application. World Heritage sites belong to all the ...

An organization affiliated with the United Nations has canceled a symposium planned for this summer in Bethlehem, citing ...

A 10-year-old from Ansonia is being celebrated for her artwork, which was showcased at the United Nations in New York City.

Each year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reviews nominations for and selects new sites of “outstanding universal value” to its World Heritage List.

Other sites excluded were based on an assessment that they had zero risk. In total, UNESCO—the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization—recognizes 1,223 world heritage ...

So far, only 26 places in the United States have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage sites. The U.S. Interior Department put the refuge up for consideration in December. In an April 17 letter ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Friday declared Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses National Park a World Natural Heritage Site, making it the South ...

In November 1972 the United Nations Educational ... of superlative places. World Heritage status commits the home nation to protect the designated location. And if a site—through natural ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former agriculture secretary is urging the administration to support adding a vast, federally protected wildlife refuge in the Okefenokee Swamp to ...