The U.S. could lose up to 15 million acres of forestland to development by 2060. One effort to keep forests intact is to give ...

Nearly five months after Hurricane Helene devastated a portion of the Appalachian Trail in Western North Carolina, hikers can ...

West Virginia had the nation’s percentage of electric customers without power Thursday after overnight rainstorms swept ...

Kathryn McKee and her hiking partner huddled in the darkness, waiting for a search team to make its way through subzero ...

The 2025 Boone Docs Film Festival, showcasing short documentaries focused on the people who live and work in Appalachia, expands this year to include four blocks across two days – Feb. 21 and Feb. 22.

The two friends had hiked New Hampshire’s challenging Mount Washington trail a month ago. They returned and did it again ...

Nearly half of the United States from the Midwest to Northeast will see snow or a freezing rain mix before the weekend ...

The 2025 Boone Docs Film Festival, showcasing short documentaries focused on the people who live and work in Appalachia, ...

Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius -- the fallback target of the Paris climate accord -- is now ...

Mark Christie, who was named this month as chairman of FERC, grew up in coal country and spent 17 years on the Virginia State ...

Appalachian Community Relief, currently set up in the Black Mountain Ingles Garden Center, will soon move locations.

Indy Burke, the first female dean in the School of the Environment’s 116-year history, talked to the News about her career, ...