Within Virginia's Appalachian range, there's an "adventure tourism capital" town with mountain charm and plenty to do for ...

Deep heat beneath the Appalachian Mountains may be linked to an ancient rift with Greenland, helping explain why the range is ...

In a rugged patch of the Appalachian Trail in eastern Tennessee, volunteers size up a massive, gnarled tree lying on its side ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the mountain ridges of Tennessee and North Carolina, drawing visitors from ...

A bold new theory reimagines the NAA as a "Rayleigh–Taylor instability"—a geological term for when heavy, cold rock begins to ...

In a rugged patch of the Appalachian Trail in eastern Tennessee, volunteers size up a massive, gnarled tree lying on its side ...

Roughly 124 miles (200 kilometers) beneath the Appalachian Mountains in New England lies the aptly named Northern Appalachian ...

Lots of folks in the Mid-Atlantic looked forward to a beautiful Tuesday afternoon only to encounter gloomy skies and frigid temperatures—and the Appalachian Mountains are to blame.

While the mountains and foothills are not located along an active tectonic plate boundary, the region still has minor earthquakes linked to old fault lines along the Appalachian Mountains.

CASA of the Appalachian Mountains currently has five volunteers to represent the seven counties it serves. We spoke to the staff who have been hard at work looking for new volunteers.