Los Angeles is unique in its proximity to many peaceful backpacking campsites that are under an hour's drive away. We picked ...

Explorer Tim Rowland guides readers on an understated end-to-end jaunt that is worth a springtime visit— the Hoffman Notch ...

When the summer heat hits, there's nothing like the cool relief of a lakeside escape. America's lake towns provide a diverse ...

There are three major types of diseases that affect blue spruce trees: needlecasts, tip blights, and canker diseases. The two ...

Even among all the changes in Taipei’s landscape, today there are still shimmering traces of the water city that once existed ...

By the mid-1900s, ranchers and hunters had exterminated these felines, largely because they were seen — like many other wild predators — as a threat to cattle. Jaguars do occasionally kill cows, ...

Fifty years after Bruce Chatwin embarked on his ‘peculiar, dotty’ bestseller, the South American wilderness still calls ...

With stories of rats and overflowing bins recently dominating the news, it's easy to forget that the UK is blessed with ...

On a family visit to Guangzhou, China, writer Bonnie Tsui discovers that she, like the city, is ever evolving.

Decades of industrial pollution on Lake Superior has seen stretches of its shore deemed areas of environmental concern for both Canada and the U.S. A massive investment of time and money is letting ...