There are few places on Earth as mystical as Romania, and it is truly one of Europe's most underrated gems. Most visits usually begin in Bucharest, the unsung capital city that Rick Steves calls the ...

The griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), a species that has been extinct in the country for over 70 years, will be reintroduced in ...

Formerly endangered by the illegal clear-cutting of forests and excessive hunting, Southern Carpathia’s magical Fagaras Mountains are now center stage of efforts in Romania toward establishing a new ...

The first time I laid eyes on the impressive rock formations called sfinxul and babele (Romanian for “the sphinx” and “the old women” ), I was on a visit home during a college vacation. As my father ...

Explore Borșa, a mountain town in Maramureș County, nestled in the Eastern Carpathians of northern Romania. This ...

On the side of a valley in the Carpathian foothills, a swallow makes silent fighter-plane loops above an ageing cottage. Spring has reached central Romania. The little dwelling is half-hidden by pear ...

Bucharest – In the first day of a new WWF campaign more than 4,400 people signed a petition to put the most valuable mountain rivers in Romania under legal protection. They are threatened by different ...

BUCHAREST, July 3 (Reuters) - A motorcyclist was mauled to death by a bear on a road in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania on Thursday, emergency service officials said, the latest attack in the ...

In the rugged, forested mountains of central Romania, 5,000 NATO troops gathered to fight off a make-believe enemy. In what ...