In a car-free Swiss mountain town, one traveler sets out to ride every major lift, rail line, and cable route to see whether ...

At the height of the last Ice Age, enormous ice sheets covered much of North America and northern Europe. Sea levels dropped dramatically, exposing vast stretches of land that are now submerged.

ASTANA – Melting glaciers across Kazakhstan and Central Asia are accelerating climate risks from floods today to water ...

Team USA skiers Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, along with Italy’s Federica Brignone, are among the many skiers who have ...

Which state has the largest mountain cover in India? Learn about Jammu and Kashmir, its mountain ranges, geography and ...

That year, the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development opened the Hunza Serena Hotel, an 82-room property designed to welcome a new type of tourist. Balconies open onto the wide-shouldered Rakaposhi ...

When you think of countries with thousands of islands, tropical nations might come to mind first. But what if the country ...

Environmental journalist and author Laura Paskus considers the implications of climate change, and the need for a moral reckoning.

I recently read “The Mohawk” by Codman Hislop,  who taught American Civilization at Union College in Schenectady, New York. The book originally published in 1948 is the story of the Mohawk Valley and ...

What's more scenic than America's national parks? Here are five of them, scattered around the U.S., all of them with gorgeous views.

Buffalo Rock State Park near Ottawa, Illinois surprises with river bluff views, roaming bison, and massive animal-shaped ...

Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...