When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

North Carolina is home to a host of eclectic small towns and popular big cities, but it also houses two of the most gorgeous ...

Winding its way from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail (also known as the AT) spans 2,190 miles through 14 states. About 323 of those miles are found in North Carolina, including 226.6 miles ...

The Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee are the tallest mountains in the Appalachian chain, hosting the world's greatest diversity of plant, animal, and insect life of any region in a ...

Historic Biltmore House is known as "America's Largest Home ... part of the United Nations' Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve. The North Carolina mountain is estimated to be approximately ...

Bog turtles are North America’s smallest turtles ... “They’ve spent 20 million years in the Appalachian Mountains, but we could lose them in our lifetime if the Fish and Wildlife Service doesn’t act ...

Newly published research from UNC Greensboro biology professor Dr. Bryan McLean and colleagues shows that the masked shrew, a small, mole-like mammal found in the Appalachian Mountains, shrinks its ...