Whether you are an expert in folk music or if you can’t tell a banjo from a mandolin, a new biography, “Doc Watson: A Life in Music,” by Eddie Huffman, will draw you in. Along the way you’ll discover ...

Deep in Oregon’s Cascade range lies Olallie Lake, a quiet retreat often overshadowed by more famous alpine waters. This lake, part of the Olallie Lake Scenic Area in the Mt. Hood National Forest, ...

Canadian flag blowing in the wind at top of building - Khanh Ngo Photography/Getty Images It's fairly common to hear Americans express interest in moving to Canada. With the rising cost of living in ...

It's been five years since a sudden shift in the wind brought the North Complex fire roaring up a remote canyon into the pines of Berry Creek, where it incinerated almost all of the more than 1,500 ...

One month after her first encounter with the Mill River Underpass Project crew, Dusty is looking much healthier and is, in Chávez’s words, “a total snugglebug.” Dusty’s destiny, it turned out, would ...

Olympic champion Jiri Prskavec recalls paddling along the Berounka with his parents. "I come from a family of paddlers.

According to a recent survey, nearly half of adults say they believe that parts of nature — mountains, rivers or trees — can have their own spirits.

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In late July 1984, as the world’s nuclear superpowers stared each other down, some of the United States’ sharpest minds landed in Montana’s “Big Sky” country with a single, audacious goal: To figure ...

Sloths may seem like quirky tree-dwellers today, but their past reveals a dynasty of giants that once roamed the Americas. Most people know sloths as slow-moving, bear-like creatures that dangle from ...

Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that they strike ...

Forget crowded beaches and predictable tourist traps. Imagine stepping onto shores where time seems to rewind, where the air hums with untold stories, and where the landscape unfolds like a forgotten ...