UNESCO stopped updating its atlas of endangered languages
UNESCO's atlas of endangered languages stopped updating in 2017, and the broader atlas meant to replace it is still not live.
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Mont-Saint-Michel could have stopped being an island by 2040
A causeway built in 1878 let silt choke the bay around Mont-Saint-Michel. France tore it out and dammed a river to flush the mud back to sea.
Wales's first Unesco City of Literature is not a city
Aberystwyth won the title for its literary scene and bilingual culture. Unesco judges a City of Literature on publishing, festivals, libraries and bookshops.
Seabed 2030 has mapped 28.7% of the world's ocean floor
An international project has charted 28.7% of the seabed in detail, adding five million square kilometres of new data in a year.
A UK network is testing the old recipe for saving a language
A UK network asks if a language still needs a settled community, home use, job value and state funding. A UNESCO seminar urged cooperation and steady funding.
Finland has 3.3 million saunas for 5.6 million people
The sauna is thought to date back 10,000 years, to a heated pit. It became a place to cook, tend the sick and give birth.