"I'm glad I live on the west side of the River Tamar," said Rob Tremain emphatically as we discussed Cornish history and politics in the shadow of...

Just three miles long and half a mile wide, and with puffins outnumbering people 15 to one, the island of Lundy seems an unassuming place. This tiny sliver of...

Crimson paint faded by a century of unrelenting Alaskan winters, the remains of Kennecott rise from the wilderness, an anomaly of right angles against the jagged mountain...

On a recent evening, Elia Origoni stood at Sardinia’s south-eastern tip, watching the azure sky darken until it merged with the sea, and contemplating the most daunting...

A flash of green amid traffic-choked roads, elevated railway lines and anonymous high-rise apartment and office blocks, Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens is a well-kept but unremarkable south London...

Luminous and fragile, amber has long inspired reverence. Protected by Prussian law starting in the 13th Century, the fossilised resin was a sought-after substance for crafting royal...

There was a time when the thought of walking made me shudder.I grew up in Merstham, a one-pub village in England's south-east that sits on the motorway...

On a sunny day in April 2019, three elite long-distance trail runners – an American, a Mexican and a Mexican-American – met in a deep, red rock...

In a decorative wooden building in the town of Starý Smokovec at the foot of the High Tatra Mountains in Slovakia, a collection of frames lean against...

Beyond Grenada's picture-perfect beaches, the Caribbean nation is a nature lover's paradise of lush rainforests, crashing waterfalls and soaring mountain ranges. For the past 60 years, those...