From Mama’s Boy Burgers to affordable housing and arts institutions, Tannersville’s revival reflects a careful effort to balance tourism, community, and long-term stability in the Catskills.

Wealthy buyers and tourism entrepreneurs are acquiring abandoned European villages — school, church and bar included.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.' ...

Assam's Hatikhuli village has transformed human-elephant conflict into coexistence. A 'Friends of Elephants' initiative provides specially cultivated food for herds, eliminating crop raids. This ...

For much of South America’s history, the arrival of a missionary has carried two reputations at once. One is charitable: a figure with medicine, schooling, and a language of human dignity that can be ...