Environment

Six new sites inscribed on World Heritage List

GEUSStevns Klint (Denmark)

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EPA and New York State Announce Ban on Dumping Sewage from Boats into Lake Erie

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation declared the New York side of the Lake Erie shore line a “no discharge zone,” which means that boats are completely banned from discharging sewage...

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Santa Maria: Haïti requests UNESCO to send experts to examine shipwreck off its coast

In a letter dated 12 June, Haitian Culture Minister Monique Rocourt asked for the support of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Body of UNESCO’s 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage, requesting that a mission of experts...

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Four new cultural sites inscribed on World Heritage List

The Grand Canal (China)