Rising along the line where eastern and western Europe divide, a forested mountain range is home to shepherds, villages and plenty of bears.

Tatra is a mountain group in Northern Slovakia and South Poland in the central Carpathian Mountains. The Tatra lakes are called tarns.

The Carpathian Mountains host a very rich diversity of fauna and flora and harbour many species that are increasingly threatened by fragmentation from infrastructure development. Roads, railways, ...

However, habitat destruction as well as hunting have caused a sharp decline in bear populations. Today only 45 to 50 bears remain in the Alps. They are mostly found in northern Slovenia and Italy. In ...

Slovakia has taken over the presidency of the Carpathian Convention and will stay at its helm until 2014, the SITA newswire reported. "The Carpathian Convention is an international convention whose ...

Greenpeace activists are calling on the Polish prime minister to take action to protect Poland’s forests, asking in particular that this government limit the harvesting of timber in the old ...

Local News Fitchburg native, baby escape Ukraine through the mountains into Slovakia Aislinn Hubbard, 19, and her nine-month-old son took a difficult route to avoid detection.