Today's avocado industry, a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, relies primarily on a single variety: the Hass avocado.

The diplomat added that Russia is not going to withdraw from UNESCO. Despite all the "political burdens", the Russian Federation and the organization have a solid and constructive agenda, he stressed.

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the UN refugee agency, accusing it of bias. Learn about the country’s exit and its broader ...

Citing no evidence, Ortega and Murillo accuse the UN Agency of publishing “biased and one-sided” information, and of ...

The last category is the rarest; only 40 of UNESCO’s more than 1,200 sites have that dual status. That’s less than 4 percent of all UNESCO sites worldwide. A few mixed sites are famous: Machu Picchu, ...

The island is a UNESCO World Heritage site due to its wealth of medieval ... Maybe that’s because getting here requires a flight to Great Corn Island, about 50 miles off the coast of Nicaragua, then ...

Travelers don’t need a car to explore Rottnest Island in Australia. You can take a short ferry ride from Perth and enjoy the ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

UNESCO Global Geoparks are distinct regions with internationally important geology that tells the story of earth’s history. UNESCO revalidates geoparks every four years, and three of the five in ...

Requests for those studies went unanswered and UNESCO told AP it had not been notified by Peru of the change and that it will seek information from the government. In past years, Peru’s Culture ...

On 2 June 2025, UNESCO hosted a welcome event for 16 newly designated UNESCO Global Geoparks. The new designations extend across Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East and include two new ...