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 ...

Svitlana Yanchuk, left, came with her daughters and their children from Bila Tserkva, Ukraine, to the Carpathian Mountains. It is safe and close to the border with Poland, where they hope to go next.

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.

Experience Ukraine's scenic Carpathian railway in a private sleeper cabin from Mukachevo to Lviv. Enjoy the mountain views on ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Greenpeace activists on Wednesday called on the Polish prime minister to take action to protect Poland’s forests, asking the government to limit the harvesting of timber in the ...

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 ...

Ukraine might be fending off a full-scale Russian invasion but a brand new holiday resort is taking shape in the western ...

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