Hikers pause on a ridgeline trail to look for the perfect selfie shot. Will their backdrop for the Instagram-worthy photo be the snow-dusted peaks or alpine meadows dotted with wild daisies and ...

The Carpathian Mountains are a horseshoe-shaped range that arcs from central to southeastern Europe. From their western edge in Austria and the Czech Republic, the Carpathians rise clockwise through ...

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 ...

Primeval beech forests in the Carpathian Mountains have been inscribed on the UN's World Heritage List, underlining the global importance of this rare forest habitat — the most extensive in Europe.