On the slopes of a volcano in central Mexico, biologist Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero and his team envision a climate refuge for oyamel fir trees and the monarch butterflies that depend on them.

One of West Africa's most iconic hiking destinations is under threat and diminishing fast due to illegal 'slash and burn' farming. Located in the Southern Koinadugu region of Sierra Leone, the Loma ...

In Uganda, home to the primate capital of the world, tourism is small-scale but growing. Chimp and gorilla treks are the big draws.

It’s wonderful. This needs to be a national park.’” Those early SMHC members loved the mountains that would later form the park, and they were concerned for their future. Every year ...

GORHAM, N.H. — In a lively stand of birch, beech, and maple trees with fluttering bits of fall color, an old battle between familiar foes in the White Mountains rages again: To chop or not to chop?

Discovered Thursday around 3 p.m., the grass fire in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge has burned around 900 acres on refuge lands and 400 acres off of the refuge, including areas as far south as ...

Seth T. Kannarr is affiliated with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as an Education Branch VIP (Volunteer-In-Parks) part-time. Derek H. Alderman once served on the Federal Advisory ...

The discovery led by Mr Maksudov, director of Uzbekistan's National Center of Archaeology ... in 2011 while trekking in the mountains. They found burial sites, thousands of pottery shards and ...