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World heritage sites in US, Australia and Russia among those that have emitted more carbon than they absorbed since 2001

Our icy World Heritage sites will soon look very different Reuters lundi, 13 mai 2019 à 14:45 - Climate change is becoming one of the most significant risks for World Heritage sites. Everest climbers could face a starkly different landscape stripped of the dramatic Khumbu Icefall within decades as global warming melts icy landmarks, scientists said on Tuesday. Glaciers are set to vanish from almost half of U.N.-designated World Heritage sites in less than a century if greenhouse gas emissions are not cut, according to research published in the journal Earth's Future. Sites likely to be aff...

Search Friday, 12 February 2021 at 16:00:00 2 min read © Patrick Triplet Following the outbreak of avian influenza currently raging in Senegal and Mauritania, UNESCO organized on February 11, 2021, a virtual information and consultation meeting with the Senegalese and Mauritanian authorities in charge of the management of the Djoudj National Bird Park (PNOD), the Diawling National Park (PND) and the Banc d'Arguin National Park (PNBA) as well as representatives of FAO, the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), the CMS Scienti...

Support OneGreenPlanet Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high quality content. Please support us! Support Us The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently published its 2020 report on the status of World Heritage Sights. The organization evaluates the health of the 241 sights every 3 years. In the time between the 2017 report and the 2020 report, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has gone from being labeled as “significant concern” to “critical.” The deteriorating conditions in the Great Barrier Reef are due to cor...