World Heritage status is an honor reserved for the planet’s most iconic natural and cultural treasures — places like the Great Barrier Reef and Yellowstone National Park.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A herd of antelope graze near a giraffe in Botswana's Okavango Delta. Murat Ozgur Guvendik/Anadolu via Getty Images Botswana’s ...

If inscribed, the Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape would become South Sudan’s first World Heritage Site. Its recognition ...

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 ...

The Statue of Liberty is a favorite victim of Hollywood's climate change disaster scenarios. There are more than 1,000 World Heritage sites in 163 countries. The report features in-depth case studies ...

The latest version of the World Heritage map, produced by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and National Geographic Maps with support from the United Nations Foundation, can now be ordered for a modest ...

Updating Tanzania’s World Heritage Tentative List is a critical step towards revitalizing the country’s engagement with the ...

Plans to transform a collection of historic mills located within a Derbyshire UNESCO World Heritage Site into new homes have been backed by the council.

Liverpool's waterfront has long been considered the main jewel in its crown, and the buildings known collectively as its "Three Graces" are world-famous. But over the last decade, there has been ...

Botswana's fertile Okavango Delta is one of the last remaining high-biodiversity ecosystems in the world, home to cheetahs, African wild dogs, baobab trees, crocodiles, termites and owls that catch ...