"Dive into Germany’s Harz National Park—one of just 16 national parks in the country—as it battles a massive bark beetle outbreak. Decades of spruce monocultures (planted to fuel centuries of mining) ...

Located right next to the Harz National Park, Bad Harzburg in Lower Saxony is a paradise for hikers and nature lovers in general. Not far from the legendary Brocken mountain, you’ll also find historic ...

Sign up for a wander through the spruce forests surrounding Clausthal-Zellerfeld, in North Germany’s Harz mountains, and you’ll do so to a soundtrack of mournful ...

Hikers can trek 94 kilometers (58 miles) through northern Germany's Harz National Park, learn about its role in Cold War history and witness firsthand how these ...

Multiple aircraft were deployed to help put out a large fire in the Harz Mountains of central Germany, with the blaze expected to continue burning for days. About 500 people have been evacuated from a ...

A forest fire is pictured on the Koenigsberg below the Brocken mountain, the highest point of the Harz region, in Wernigerode, central Germany, on September 7, 2024. (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER / AFP) ...

An extensive forest fire on the highest mountain in the German Harz National Park is to be fought intensively from the air and on the ground - with helicopters, airplanes and many firefighters. The ...

For the past decade, conservationists have been releasing zoo-bred Eurasian lynx in Germany's Harz mountains, with the goal of returning them to their natural habitat. The lynx, once targeted by ...

FRANKFURT, Germany - Hundreds of firefighters backed by aeroplanes and helicopters on Sept 7 battled a massive forest fire in the mountains of central Germany for a second day. The blaze began in the ...