SYDNEY: Australia on Friday launched a multi-million dollar effort to stop pesticide runoff and other water quality issues on the Great Barrier Reef, the latest effort to save the ailing …
Unesco added Saturday the scene of an apartheid-era massacre and a village where Nelson Mandela lived as a boy to its World Heritage List, in an entry honouring South Africa’s …
Sado, Niigata Pref. – The first thing you notice alighting from the ferry at Ryotsu on Sado Island is the absence of convenience stores. This generates a modern sense of …
SAN: Thousands of fishermen holding cone shaped nets stood side by side, cheering and chanting as they waited for the signal. Suddenly, they rushed to a large muddy pond and …
The Socotra archipelago, a remote collection of islands in the Indian Ocean, is often described as one of the most alien-looking places on Earth. Located between the Guardafui Channel and …
PARIS: More than 1,400 buildings belonging to scientific institutions in Ukraine have been damaged in Russia’s invasion and restoring public science infrastructure will cost $1.26 billion, a UN agency said …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags SEVENTEEN recently achieved a groundbreaking feat as the first K-pop artists to participate in the UNESCO Youth Forum in Paris, France. The event …
NIGERIA: Roaring chainsaws sent trees crashing to the ground, and bare-chested men hacked away at the branches beside a muddy road. Others heaved logs onto a truck, where they were …