Bratislava, 5 September 2018. Infrastructure development plans for the Carpathian countries aim to cover the region with a dense web of roads and railways. But the natural richness of the area may get ...

EVERYONE comes here looking for vampires” says Sebastian, our dark-haired, pale-skinned guide to Romania’s top tourist trap, ...

A haystack on the Carpathian mountainside. All photos by Tom Hansell. I hiked up the gravel lane, following the ridgeline to a farmhouse at the top of the hill. My traveling companions were already in ...

A report released by WWF, ahead of this week’s pan-European environment conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, finds that the Carpathians could be the continent’s last refuge for the brown bear, wolf and lynx.

After Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February and began to bombard the country’s eastern regions, millions of Ukrainians fled westward. Among them were hundreds of artists who have taken shelter in the ...

Mountaineer Jozef Truban biked and walked 3100km across the Carpathian Mountains – alone and without a tent. Jozef Truban never planned to make a complete traverse of one of Europe’s largest mountain ...

A new WWF report shows that the Carpathian Mountains are probably home to Europe's richest diversity of mountain-dwelling animal and plants species, but also warns that this treasure could be lost ...

Twenty years ago, you could not have paid me to sit on grass, touch anything outside that a bug or animal had itself rested its bottom on or consume something that had grown out of the Earth without ...