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Tasmania’s drying climate is seeing more bushfires ignited by lightning strikes. To protect the state’s World Heritage wilderness, we must use sustainable fire management practices.
Coral in the Great Barrier Reef is once again bleaching, with water temperatures up to 3°C higher than normal in some places.
The reef is suffering environmental conditions that are so extreme, scientists are struggling to simulate these scenarios in laboratories.
Lviv is an important Renaissance and baroque urban centre in Eastern Europe, and its two remaining synagogues survived mass destruction in the Second World War.
Hundreds of Africa’s heritage sites are exposed to sea-level rise and coastal erosion in the future.
For over 40 years, a coal mine on the outskirts of the Blue Mountains World Heritage area dumped poorly treated wastewater into the Wollangambe River. Finally, it’s on the road to recovery.
Saving the Great Barrier Reef is not about throwing money at it – what matters is how the dollars are spent.
The package comes as the Morrison government tries to convince the World Heritage Committee it is making every effort to preserve the reef.
A barrier built to stop human migrants will instead cut off animals and scientific cooperation.
The insurgents left Mosul in 2017 in a near total state of destruction. With little outside help, local residents are rebuilding their city and reclaiming their identity.
Plans are progressing to rebury the remains of some of Australia’s most significant inhabitants. But scientists say this will see the potential to learn more about the origins of humanity vanish.
Friday’s decision from the World Heritage Committee doesn’t change the irrefutable evidence that dangerous impacts are occurring on the Great Barrier Reef.
Preserving the cultural heritage of a city like Liverpool has to be reconciled with investing in its residents’ futures.
Federal environment minister Sussan Ley wrote an opinion article saying the reef didn’t deserve to be the poster child for climate change perils. We disagree.
Australia has suggested a UNESCO recommendation to list the Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’ was motivated by politics. This is hardly the first such accusation levied at the organisation.
The development is significant for several reasons – not least that Australia’s progress under the Paris Agreement is being linked to its stewardship of the reef.
Losing archives has significant implications in a country like South Africa with a fraught and contested history because voices from the past, which may carry alternative histories, are lost.
Aotearoa New Zealand is falling behind in world heritage sites. Is it time we lobbied for recognition of our unique cultural history?
The official advisor to UNESCO rated the site as being of ‘significant concern’, a drop from ‘good with some concerns’. It’s now in the second lowest category.
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PSM, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University
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Associate Professor in Physics, James Cook University
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Distinguished Professor, James Cook University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Director, Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Professor of International Law, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Corporate governance lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Honorary Fellow in Economics, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Architectural HIstory and Theory, UNSW & Honorary Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH), UNSW Sydney
