A Gilded Age baron invited Carl Alwin Schenck to manage his forest at the Biltmore Estate. The decision changed America's ...

We spent three days in Germany's Black Forest, which is said to have inspired famous fairy-tales. It has some of the best hiking trails and castle ruins in Germany, and I loved its eponymous cake.

BERLIN (AP) — Members of a government-appointed panel of experts on the future of Germany’s coal industry are protesting plans to chop down parts of an ancient forest for mining. Panel members from ...

It can be hard to figure out what's actually worth seeing in Europe and what has just earned publicity because of its historically fortified status. With years of built-up expectations, travelers ...

ENZKLOSTERLE, Germany (AP) — The Black Forest gets its name from a canopy of trees so dense that the woods seem dark, pierced only by shafts of sunlight. Mushrooms sprout across the damp forest floor.

Just over two weeks after his poisoning with a military-grade nerve agent in Siberia, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny began to respond to the words of his wife Yulia and wake from a drug-induced coma.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s forests — long a source of pride and national identity — are feeling the heat. A second consecutive year of unusually dry and warm weather has left swaths of dead and dying ...

GERMANY - German photographer Jörg Gläscher spent five months in a secluded forest near Hamburg making waves. Gläscher gathered enough deadwood to make nine waves – the largest of which spans 13 feet ...

Every morning for 20 years, Karl-Heinz Martens steered his yellow mail truck through the narrow streets of Eutin, a market town arranged around a little castle in northern Germany, near the Baltic Sea ...

EUTIN – It's timber over Tinder in a forest in northern Germany where the Bridegroom's Oak has connected lovers for more than a century. Known as “Bräutigamseiche” in German, the Bridegroom’s Oak has ...