Below, a beach offers you its azure waters, inviting you to dive in. Lac Blanc: an intimate lake in the heart of the Vosges mountains In the Vosges Mountains, the most unmissable lake is Gérardmer. In ...

Pressed up against the German border, along the Rhine, the region flip-flopped between Germany and France for centuries. (The ...

(The Germans considered the Vosges Mountains, east of the Rhine, to be the natural border, while the French thought the river made a better border.) ...

The answer is not found in geography either. “West of the Rhine and east of the Vosges mountains” is all well and good. But it does not impinge upon the real question, which is a question of identity.

A hiker from Quebec was rescued Saturday from “potentially life-threatening” conditions after sliding off a trail in the White Mountains and injuring his leg and shoulder, officials said.

But The Swag, a luxury hotel in the mountains of Western North Carolina, turns that concept on its head. While food, non-alcoholic drinks, and most activities are included in the nightly rate, there’s ...

This same region also features some of the most ancient rocks in North America—as old as 3.96 billion years in the Beartooth Mountains to the northeast of Yellowstone caldera. The Beartooth Mountains ...

Japanese engineers have unveiled a concept design of the Corleo, a four-legged robotic horse that could one day carry people across a vast range of terrains.

These new maps uncover tens of thousands of unknown underwater mountains and hills that shape deep-sea ecosystems and offer clues to Earth’s geologic past. With this breakthrough, scientists are ...

A winter storm warning has been issued for the Cascade Mountains in Whatcom, Skagit, Pierce and Lewis counties of Washington state, starting at 5 p.m. Monday, April 7, and ending at 5 p.m. Tuesday ...

LOS GATOS — Santa Clara County authorities have shared the identities and causes of death of the two men that were found last week in an abandoned pickup truck in the Santa Cruz Mountains.