The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

Old enough to remember when days on Earth were shorter than 24 hours. The rocks at the core of the Appalachians formed nearly 1.2 billion years ago when all the continents were still one.

Anthony says the Sauratown Mountains are old, possibly predating the Appalachians, and are mere remnants of what was once there. "I’ve heard they used to be about 10 times the size that they are ...

The Appalachian Mountains reign as the global center of salamander diversity, housing more species than anywhere else on Earth. These mountains are home to over 70 salamander species, representing ...

In the misty valleys of the Appalachian Mountains, a magical phenomenon is making a comeback. Fireflies, those enchanting bioluminescent beetles that transform summer nights into starlit wonderlands, ...

Once early settlers navigated the rough Appalachian Mountains, they found vast stretches of undeveloped land in what is now central and western Tennessee. The early settlers often received land grants ...

Alan Levine was CEO of Mountain States Health Alliance during that time and later became the head of Ballad Health, when Mountain States merged with a competing hospital system in 2018 to form the ...

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So one morning, just as the sun crests over the mountains, a busload of tourists stops to take in the view at the western edge of Virginia's Appalachian coalfields. SHARON PRESSLER: I thought it was ...

Then there is the more positive side; people who work the land way up in the mountains, who play the banjo and dulcimer and find joy in the simplicities of life. This label of “hillbilly” is the ...

Whitewater-trained crews in Tennessee and North Carolina have spent the last two weeks pivoting from recreation to emergency response in the wreckage of two deadly hurricanes.