The researchers lugged their equipment out onto the glacier. Scanning the surroundings, they found a good spot below an icefall and scraped away the top layer of snow. In went a drill as tall as a ...

Why it's incredible: The landscape looks crumpled and folded from above. Iran's folded rocks are rugged mountain ridges and valleys to the southwest of the Caspian Sea. They are an extension of the ...

Bears in the Western Caucasus World Heritage Site, October 2010 (Photo by Maria Kaplina courtesy UNESCO) The World Heritage site is at the far western end of the Greater Caucasus Mountains within ...

With a richly diverse natural landscape—from the vertiginous mountain peaks of the Caucasus to the balmy rainforests of the Black Sea-fronted Adjara region—the country of Georgia offers travelers a ...

TUSHETI, Georgia -- In the early days of October, the region of Tusheti, tucked away in Georgia's Greater Caucasus mountain range, has already begun to change. The green forests that blanket these ...

High in the Azerbaijani foothills of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, about two and a half hours northwest of Baku, lies Red Village, a centuries-old Jewish community that some call "the last shtetl." ...

Iran's folded rocks are rugged mountain ridges and valleys to the southwest of the Caspian Sea. They are an extension of the Greater Caucasus mountain belt, which also stretches along Russia's border ...