Urbanization — and accompanying rural abandonment — may have profound implications for global biodiversity and therefore should factor into conservation planning, argue researchers writing in the ...

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Universidad de Cádiz (UCA) have carried out a study aimed at understanding and addressing the problem of rural depopulation. To tackle this ...

The rural exodus has been triggered in Europe since the early decades of the second half of the twentieth century. Many people, especially the younger members of society, continue to migrate to the ...

Europeans have flocked to cities but what remains of the villages they left behind? In Spain, we meet the folk fighting to resurrect forgotten communities. All is quiet in the village of Used in Spain ...

To combat rural economic decline and depopulation, Calabria is adopting a slow food model which blends its regional ...

Firefighters stand next to their vehicles as they work to put out a wildfire burning through vegetation on the hills of Montfort-sur-Argens, southeastern France on July 31, 2026. Thibaud MORITZ/AFP ...

WEST MONROE — In a low-slung conference room in the West Monroe Convention Center, Mer Rouge native Meryl Kennedy had questions. The 34-year old CEO of a Morehouse Parish-based rice mill, Kennedy had ...