climate emergency Eno performing gorgeous, haunting "There Were Bells" from forthcoming album ForeverAndEverNoMore Gareth Branwyn

Culture Creative industry workers suffer the most stolen wages, according to UNESCO Thom Dunn

music Reggae is now on UNESCO's list of protected cultural heritage David Pescovitz

india The Taj Mahal's white marble walls are turning green and brown with pollution Séamus Bellamy

health The US has quit UNESCO, the UN agency that protects world heritage sites and teaches poor children to read Cory Doctorow

trumpism Israel to Trump: no, you can't land a helicopter on our UNESCO World Heritage Site Cory Doctorow

crime Ancient swords seized by customs officers Rob Beschizza

travel Road Trip: The Berber-Roman city of Volubilis Séamus Bellamy

Nature Daring climbers tackle China's notorious Nine-Nine Ladder without safety gear Popkin

law Price of Thieves: men who cut down Sycamore Gap tree jailed for 4 years Rob Beschizza

Drones still revealing Nazca geoglyphs—hundreds of them Rob Beschizza

unexplained phenomena Laser-cut by giants? How did this massive rock in the Saudi Arabian desert get split so cleanly? Mark Frauenfelder

Instagram fool damages 6,000-year-old cave art for likes, faces wrath of Spanish authorities Ellsworth Toohey

Japan "Gaijin tax"— Japanese restaurants and attractions charging more for foreigners  Mark Frauenfelder

france France now has baguette-scented baguette postage stamps Rusty Blazenhoff

architecture The oldest skyscrapers in the world Natalie Dressed

animal rescue Watch these rescuers save entangled seals Gail Sherman

video games A game where virtual friendship turns nightmarish: KinitoPET's psychological horror experience Gail Sherman

art Four men charged with stealing 18K gold toilet from Winston Churchill's home David Pescovitz

Twits Musk fantasizes an agreement to hold his cage match in Rome Jason Weisberger