President Donald Trump signed executive orders to effectively slash environmental protections on more than half of the nation ...

A little less than halfway to home,” has special meaning to one Warren County resident, and every step brings him closer to ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the Kentucky Historical Society, sometime over the past 300 million years, the impact of a meteorite in the heights of the Appalachian Mountains formed a circular basin. The basin is ...

This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.

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 ...

Mountaintop Rescue Features January/February 2012 By Samir S. Patel Archaeology, coal, and activism collide in the Appalachian Mountains at the site of America's largest labor conflict.

Compared to true mountain ranges like the Rockies or the Appalachians, the Ozarks have relatively modest elevations. The highest point in the Ozarks, Buffalo Lookout, reaches only about 2,561 feet ...