This is the fourteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

Tuberculosis infection numbers are inching up, and the World Health Organization has identified Central Asia and the Caucasus as hot spots. A WHO report on TB in the Europe and Central Asia region, ...

In recent weeks, much international attention has focused on the war between Russia and Ukraine, and US President Donald ...

At current rates of melting, many glaciers in western Canada and the United States, Scandinavia, central Europe, the Caucasus ... of the world's freshwater resources, with high mountain regions ...

To end the war with Ukraine, Russia could offer the U.S. access to rare earth deposits in Ukraine that it does not legally ...

But few places are as intriguing as the world’s second largest continent’s highest mountain, which is a snow-capped volcano that rises 5,895 metres (19,341 feet) above sea level and has five ...

On the lower southern slopes of the mountains of the Northern Caucasus, Gelati Monastery reflects the 'golden age' of medieval Georgia, a period of political strength and economic growth between the ...

Donald Trump is “invoking emergency powers” to increase the ability of the US to produce critical minerals “and potentially coal”, according to Bloomberg ...

Soaring temperatures are leading to rapid and largely irreversible changes in the mountain ranges of the world, according to a new UNESCO report. In several regions, higher elevations seem to be ...