Chart: The Economist Brazil holds nearly a quarter of the world’s known deposits of rare earths, second only to China (see chart). Besides prime geology, the country boasts a sturdy extractive ...

The “Roof of Africa” is the continent’s most climbed peak—which often means trekking in the company of crowds. These five climbs offer under-the-radar alternatives with challenging trails and wild ...

I’m writing to address the growing misinformation surrounding the proposed National Conservation Area for the southern ...

From unearthing tourmaline in 1820 in West Paris to the world-changing 1972 discovery in Newry, the state has a place on the ...

The sun was still low on the horizon when 19-year-old Piper James walked toward the Pacific Ocean for a morning swim on an island whose name in the local language means “paradise.” ...

The Göreme Open-Air Museum in Nevşehir, one of Türkiye’s most visited museums, welcomed 1,187,016 domestic and international visitors last ...

Soskin was born in 1921 and became a National Park Service ranger in 2007. Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, has died at 104 years old. Betty Reid ...

The Goreme National Park in Turkey, surrounded by a whimsical scene of rocky spires and smooth wind-cut valleys, hides the legacy of the people who carved out a life here. Explores the glaciers and ...

For the first time in five summers, visitors to Glacier National Park will likely be able to drive the park’s most popular thoroughfare — the Going-to-the-Sun Road — without a vehicle reservation in ...

The National Park Service recently announced a major change to its free entry days for U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Starting in 2026, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth will no longer ...

It’s a pretty rare experience to have an entire national park to yourself — and even rarer to know that you can see the entirety of the park’s diverse landscape from one vantage point. But that was ...

Spingdale • Dark orange signs that read “ENTRANCE FEE DONATIONS” in bold white letters currently dot the walls of Zion National Park’s visitor center. To some visitors, it may be the only real ...