Once again, the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah are potentially on a political merry-go-round for rumored development of mining and oil drilling. As reported in The ...

“These monuments were about so much more than burial,” lead author Neil Carlin, an archaeologist at University College Dublin, tells Tom Dunne, host of the “Moncrieff Highlights” podcast.

The monument is home to a swath of endangered species and is also a sacred ancestral waterway for Indigenous Pacific Islanders, according to the Pacific Islands Heritage Coalition. “ ...

Enforcement of the ban on foreign-flagged ships in the monument would be up to the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s law enforcement unit. Kingma worries ...

While each year's IDMS comes with a different theme, the International Council on Monuments and Sites encourages countries to highlight topics most relevant to their own cultural context. In Iran, ...

The Trump administration is opening a national marine monument to commercial fishing, it announced Thursday. The White House issued an executive order that allows for commercial fishing within the ...

Mr. Trump issued an executive order opening up the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, which lies some 750 miles west of Hawaii. President George W. Bush established the monument in ...

SAN DIEGO — The group Friends of Friendship Park is pushing for the accelerated realignment of Monument Road, the access route through Border Field State Park in San Diego. Construction is ...

In a special initiative to celebrate World Heritage Day, the Ministry of Culture has announced that no entry fee will be charged at monuments protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI ...

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The Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument was created by President George W. Bush in 2009 and expanded by President Barack Obama in 2014. It includes seven national wildlife refuges ...