GOMA, Congo (AP) — A landslide earlier this week collapsed several mines at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo, ...

Today, most people visiting our public lands are aware of the principles of Leave No Trace. One easy way to remember the 7 Leave No Trace principles is the 7 Fs: However, we still ...

A joint investigation by The Associated Press and The Gecko Project has found that cyanide, arsenic and copper repeatedly ...

English] [French] Read the article in French At 1:15 p.m., the lights die inside Mill No. 3 and the building starts to talk. A wash of sparks ...

An abandoned town, largely unchanged from decades ago, sits at the far northern edge of Svalbard, beyond reliable phone signal or internet access. Pyr.

Route 66 celebrates 100 years this year and it played a significant role in shaping Oatman, a ghost town turned tourist town.

If you want to witness several historic, abandoned towns in a single vacation, this remote and picturesque slice of Canada ...

What it's like to ride the most legendary railways around the world—from the Scottish Highlands to the Peruvian Andes.

New efforts are underway in the state to pull several rare earth elements used in a variety of modern machines and ...

Away from Banff and Jasper national parks, a new rail trail is opening up a previously inaccessible corner of Canada and ...

This searing piece, filed from Panna, one of India’s poorest corners, tells the tale of men and women who have spent years digging pits in the hope of finding a diamond. The shiny stone, they hope, ...