U.S. reinforcements land on Omaha Beach near Verville-sur-Mer, France, during D-Day on June 6, 1944 SEOUL: The World War II D-Day landing beaches in northern France and Greece’s iconic Mount Olympus were both added to the World Heritage List on Sunday as a United Nations committee met in South Korea to review dozens of nominations.The … Read more
A Common Greenshank stood at the edge of the pool. Commercial trees were planted in parts of Scotland’s 9,000-year-old peatlands in the 1980s; decades later, conservationists are clearing them to protect wildlife and keep the carbon they store underground.The large-scale project is centered on the Flow Country, a wetland area of more than 400,000 hectares … Read more
Snow remains on the upper slopes of Mount Olympus in northern Greece on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) Covered in snow for much of the year and often shrouded in mist, Mount Olympus has guarded Greece for as long as people can remember. For the ancient Greeks, it was more than a mountain—it … Read more
From above, they look like giant donuts carved into the landscape. From the ground, they look more like medieval fortresses than family homes. The towering earthen walls, narrow entrance and spacious wooden interior seem designed for defense rather than domestic life. Yet behind these grand facades lies one of the most striking examples of public … Read more
St. Kinga’s Chapel – The mine’s iconic underground chapel, carved from rock salt. Beneath the town of Wieliczka in southern Poland lies one of the most extraordinary underground landmarks in the world. The Wieliczka Salt Mine has been in operation for over 700 years and is a vast maze of tunnels, caverns, underground lakes and … Read more
Photo credit: X/@josephlunieOFF At least 30 people were killed in a stampede at Chateau Laferrière in northern Haiti on Saturday, officials said, as large crowds gathered at the historic site for annual festivities.Jean Henri Petit, head of civil protection for Haiti’s northern department, said the stampede occurred at the entrance to the historic fortress, an … Read more
Fossilized whale bones are exposed to the sun in Wadi Al-Hitan (also known as the “Valley of the Whales”) in the heart of the Egyptian desert. Their vertebrae stretch in long, curved lines across the sand, as if the water has just receded. How did these ocean giants survive in this extremely dry place on … Read more
The world’s widest waterfall system is between Brazil and Argentina – stretching 2.7 kilometers (Image credit – NASA) Along the border between Brazil and Argentina, the Iguazu River widens, slows, and then drops. The land just disappeared. Iguazu Falls stretches approximately 2.7 kilometers across a basalt plateau, forming what is often said to be the … Read more