Mount Paektu, an active stratovolcano straddling the border of North Korea and China, is the highest peak on the Korean peninsula and lies at the heart of North Korea’s foundation myth.

The North Korea’s Mount Paektu, an active stratovolcano on the North Korean-Chinese border, has been designated as a UNESCO ...

Indonesia is pressing ahead with construction of a new network of dams in Borneo to power a major “green” industrial estate ...

He directed the U.S. Department of the Interior and other agencies to review Smithsonian exhibits and national park service sites for what he believes are anti-American displays and sentiment.

I visited all the major US national parks and ranked them based on factors like beauty and crowd size. My favorites include Grand Teton and Acadia.

Up until the 1990s, Malaysian geography books proudly declared Mount Kinabalu as the highest mountain in Southeast Asia. Standing at an impressive 4,095 meters, this majestic granite peak has long ...

THE National Food Authority (NFA) said on Sunday that it plans to procure around 880,000 metric tons (MT) of palay, or unmilled rice, this year. The planned volume will allow the NFA to meet its ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 77 °F (25 °C). Cloudy with a high of 91 °F (32.8 °C). Winds variable at 3 to 6 mph (4.8 to 9.7 kph). Mostly cloudy today with a ...

There I spent one night in Tuaran, near Mount Kinabalu National Park, and a second in Tanjung Aru, closer to Kota Kinabalu itself. Apart from sampling two more seriously stylish hotels,I wanted to ...

L.A.S. Johnson later described the species in 1989 from material collected by P.R. Sharpe from Emu Mountain (otherwise known as Mt Peregian). It is closely related to A. thalassoscopica and A.

The leech is most active during heavy rainfall, which is common on Mount Kinabalu. This is when its favourite prey, the giant earthworm, emerges from the soil — making it the perfect time for a feast.