Forest bathing , or shinrin-yoku, is a Japanese practice that involves mindfully immersing oneself in a forest environment.

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian tectonic plate collided with the Arabian plate millions of years ago.

The U.S. Forest Service is providing notice that it plans to reissue a final environmental review and draft decision on a contested transfer of land in Arizona that would clear the way for a massive ...

With the summer tourism season on the horizon, a bipartisan group of Western Slope state lawmakers is warning of “serious ...

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

This article explores how the Garos, an Indigenous tribe in Meghalaya, India, plays a vital role in managing and conserving ...

Snaking almost 1,800 miles from its source in Germany’s Black Forest to the Black Sea in Romania, the Danube is best explored slowly. Cruises, the most popular option, provide up-close encounters with ...

The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...

Tengrinews.kz - Kazakhstan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Yerlan Nyssanbayev, has called on citizens to stay alert as the country enters a high-risk wildfire season.

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the trees’ pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny, more ...