Topic: United Nations
The Mercedes Benz Museum by UN Studio is located near Stuttgart, Germany next to highway B14. With a nearby Mercedes-Benz Center and a test course, a highly industrial landscape now received a cultural jolt ? a new space for a different kind ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Zoos and aquariums should do more to educate visitors about ways to slow extinctions and build on successes in breeding rare species from monkeys to toads, the head of the world's zookeepers said on Monday."We have a huge opportunity ...
tree and parkTaken in 2003 during one of the worst fire storm in California history.NatureInspired by Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, for this work that you see here in this web page.I heard that Ansel Adams have used Kodak number 1 Box ...
World Expo in Shanghai, the last two months, the exhibitors are trying to introduce more exciting programs. Expo will feature news from the press conference was informed that more than 7,000 performances have been included in September and October alone programs.Yiwu World ...
Everglades, rainforests in Madagascar added to list of UNESCO World Heritage sites in dangerThe United Nations has added Florida's Everglades National Park and rain forests in Madagascar to its list of World Heritage sites in danger.The Everglades, home to 20 endangered species, ...
The article reports on UNESCO's condemnation of British stewardship of six world heritage sites in Bath and Edinburgh, England. It targets its criticism at Edinburgh City Council for allowing the Caltongate development. Delivering the Green Infrastructure of the Growth Locations Organiser RTPI ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seeking to preserve the site where humans first set foot on the moon, a California state panel on Friday registered a collection of 106 objects left by the Apollo 11 mission as an historical resource.The move by the ...
Afghan museum exhibits looted artifacts seized at British portsThe National Museum of Afghanistan on Tuesday unveiled hundreds of looted artifacts, some dating back as far as the 11th century, seized from smugglers trying to sell them on Europe's black market.The museum has ...
UNESCO has put two natural sites, a coral reef in Belize and a national park in Colombia, on its list of endangered world heritage, a statement issued Saturday said.The UN cultural agency's World Heritage Committee meeting in Seville, Spain, said human activity, ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's picturesque Dresden Elbe Valley was formally dropped as a U.N. World Heritage site Thursday, making it only the second landmark ever to be removed from the prestigious list.The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said it de-listed ...
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