Between 300 and 400 are thought to wander forests and mountainsides.
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Out West, the dead trees that line the mountainsides are hard to miss.
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Roads are clear, the mountainsides are green again and Roseau, the capital, is bustling.
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Television images showed flames and plumes of black smoke on mountainsides carpeted in pine.
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This weather feature causes air to sink, compressing down mountainsides and accelerating through canyons.
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My friend was a rare and beautiful beast, yes — bounding over the mountainsides of academia.
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You can find it standing tall among the sagebrush on mountainsides, its red flowers blazing.
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Once densely forested mountainsides have been shaved haphazardly, as if buzzed by a giant electric razor.
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Today, scientists can't even decide whether it's got slight trickles darkening the dirt on its mountainsides.
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Small streams crawl through the valleys and past the mountainsides covered in amapa, a purple flower.
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"Gallery mines" bored into mountainsides have replaced open-cast mines, which have been outlawed in Muzo.
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PROVENCE, IN south-east France, is known for its pleasant weather, ratatouille and thickly wooded mountainsides.
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Pyeongchang gets relatively little accumulation, and there is little snow to be seen on the mountainsides.
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It dumped heavy rains that loosened the saturated soil on mountainsides, setting off landslides, officials said.
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As a result, frogs that live in cloud forests on mountainsides have been hit particularly hard.
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Cultivating treeless, steep mountainsides for agriculture, a common practice, is environmentally damaging and allows topsoil to wash out.
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So for the first time on Hold the Dark… we were in these amazing locations, these majestic mountainsides.
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In places like the western Amazon, intact forests climb mountainsides, giving species altitudinal ladders to survive climate change.
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This is one of the few mountainsides still open to late-night prayer near Seoul, says Mr Kim.
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The same species is overtaking entire mountainsides, pushing out native flora and potentially altering the regional ecosystem irreversibly.
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The caraqueños refer to their slums as los cerros —the hills—because they occupy the mountainsides above Caracas.
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It's harvested from bees that pollinate the lavender plants blanketing the mountainsides in Spain and Portugal in May.
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The mountainsides were skinned in industrial clear-cuts, the end result of public servants colluding with corporate plunderers.
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The government issued warnings that rainfall could create dangerous new flows of ash and debris down the mountainsides.
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Some of the journey was on rutted dirt roads, up and down forested mountainsides in a cloud of dust.
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Small compared to other wine-making regions, Irouleguy produces mostly red wines on the steep slopes of its mountainsides.
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Now, when hurricane-driven rain has saturated the entire island, whole mountainsides give way, taking roads and houses with them.
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Fun fact -- there are lots of homes on L.A. mountainsides where the backyards are cantilevered and seem to be floating.
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The lush greenery of the valley gave way to violently steep mountainsides and a dusty gravel road blasted across them.
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Spanish and Italian winemakers are planting higher on mountainsides or on shaded north-facing slopes to keep wine flavors recognizable.
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Many farmers have trouble finding people willing to do the arduous, all-weather work of hand-picking beans on steep mountainsides.
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Today, if you survey the Ojai Valley from an overlook you will see charred mountainsides looming over an island of green.
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But his "boulders" are cliff faces and mountainsides that many other accomplished climbers wouldn't even dream of ascending without safety precautions.
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On his first day as a member of the herd, Thwaites traipsed down the valley's steep mountainsides headfirst in his suit.
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Matter In 2013, two biologists named Jamie Voyles and Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki spent weeks slogging up and down mountainsides in Panama.
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At almost every stop, John had a story about the monks and church leaders who had left their mark on these mountainsides.
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Bright orange and yellow late-fall leaves poked through the low clouds on the distant mountainsides like beams from a distant flashlight.
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The mountainsides are bare but for a couple of shacks marking the entrance to the coal mines that brought the town into existence.
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Apple trees cascade mountainsides, massive cauliflower blooms soak up the sun on terraced hillsides, and clusters of cannabis plants weave through the landscape.
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Built into the mountainsides of Hong Kong, these terraced cemeteries appear next to the many skyscrapers that make up the densely packed city.
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Satellite images of rural outposts and grooved mountainsides dominated the computer screens inside a room in Manhattan, where more than 60 volunteers sat.
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After collecting the clay from the mountainsides of the Great Smoky chain, she would mold it by hand, without using a potter's wheel.
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It's a bitter symbol of the struggle humanity faces—luxury ski resorts battling to keep snow on mountainsides and manage their energy budget.
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The unraveling mystery is enlivened by a couple of exceptionally violent, thrillingly staged gun battles and some stunning photography of the snow-caked mountainsides.
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Dispatch From Kabul, Afghanistan What does a city do when housing needs grow so quickly that illegal settlements spread up steep hills and mountainsides?
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Along dirt tracks on the drive to Jannah, recently carved wide for construction vehicles to pass, limestone facades are evident along the freshly cleaved mountainsides.
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So in 2010, Denver Water began replanting the mountainsides, making the forest more drought-resistant by spacing trees farther apart and reducing competition for water.
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Critics say the idea would be prohibitively expensive, saddling states with the responsibility of hiring hundreds of rangers to care for mountainsides and fire-prone forests.
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The book, written by national security expert Garrett M. Graff, takes us inside the bunkers cut into granite mountainsides and dug under an elite country club.
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And to curb non-digital gambling, police last year began to use drones to detect pop-up casinos set up in the woods or on mountainsides.
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Though the persistent rain had ended, officials warned of sudden showers and thunderstorms as well as of more landslides on steep mountainsides saturated over the weekend.
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The rains caused flooding and destructive mudslides on vulnerable mountainsides near the city over the weekend, killing at least three people, with 19 more reported missing.
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New housing developments are spilling up the mountainsides, filled with families and retirees fleeing California and the East Coast for sunshine, cheaper land and lower taxes.
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Flash-flood watches and warnings across Puerto Rico said its eastern and southern regions would be the hardest hit, especially hills and mountainsides vulnerable to mudslides.
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Glaciers buttress the mountainsides that surround them; when the ice disappears, the slopes lose some of their support, and erosion or earthquakes can cause them to collapse.
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Teams are scouring the rugged, tree-covered mountainsides above the cave system looking for an alternative entrance to reach the group trapped 800 meters or more below.
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But there are moments when even the climactic spectacle, with American bombers pounding the mountainsides, are upstaged by the sight of the wind moving in the leaves.
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The fire increased to 143,000 acres, most of the advance coming on the north side of the blaze, where flames ravaged mountainsides in the Los Padres National Forest.
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The signing ceremony was not just an insult to the benighted coal hamlets of Appalachia, where the industry's dumping of debris down the mountainsides has created a wasteland.
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The mountainsides were clear-cut, and the living ecosystems of the cafetales became barren rows of bushes, with nowhere for birds to nest, berries to ripen, orchids to bloom.
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The Mavic's 4k camera and a 4.3-mile flying range can take your exploration to the next level by giving you a bird's eye view of canyons or mountainsides.
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To tourists and plenty of Icelanders the lupine fields are a breathtakingly beautiful sight in midsummer, the attractive blossoms carpeting gorges, sprawling over lava fields and climbing steep mountainsides.
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When the photographer Max Whittaker and I accompanied five Polish Himalayan climbers to the Tatras in January, snow piled swollen on steep mountainsides and the temperature hovered near zero.
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You have to feed them and keep them healthy — not just from a global pandemic, but also from the risks that one encounters while trekking along mountainsides in North Waziristan.
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ARTVIN, Turkey (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From the view of a bus traveling through villages and past the waterfalls, apiaries and dairy cows dotting northeast Turkey's mountainsides, all seems blissfully calm.
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After escaping crowded Mykonos, I went to Tinos, an island 30 minutes away by ferry, and found a breathtaking landscape, untouched beaches, and historic Greek villages built into the mountainsides.
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Catching rides on thermal air currents, they cross mountains and deserts, somehow arriving at the same forested mountainsides in south-central Mexico where their great-great-grandparents spent the previous winter.
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Also appealing was the prospect of a place that was truly dark at night — a place where the thick, spindly velvet of steep, tree-covered mountainsides soaks up the darkness completely.
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In the highlands, the royals like to entertain friends, hold dances, picnic and go on shooting parties – all the while battling the nibbling little flies that stalk the heather-covered mountainsides.
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Wildfires are tearing across California, Colorado, New Mexico and other Western states this week, chewing up bone-dry mountainsides, scorching buildings and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate from their homes.
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Landslides have become more common in mountainous parts of the East African country in recent years because of expanding settlement and cultivation that have denuded mountainsides of forest cover and other vegetation.
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He may be a legendary figure given imaginary life around that time, a prototype of the Chinese poets who even now reside in caves and subsist by foraging in their otherwise uninhabited mountainsides.
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Vast fields and mountainsides have been left largely untouched, save for large burial mounds of black plastic bags filled with low-level radioactive waste that metastasized across the landscape as the work progressed.
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But industry practices have come a long way from the pillage of centuries past when mountainsides were recklessly stripped bare of trees, with no consideration towards stewardship or the health of nearby communities.
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The structure, which emits a certain serenity and calm, is situated in an area known as Moon Land, where the normally harsh lines of the mountainsides come together and fall in soft waves.
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We passed defunct factories that, with their silos and peaks, resembled the Mormon churches we could see in the distance, isolated and chalk white against the brown mountainsides in which they were embedded.
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Teams are scouring the jungle-covered mountainsides in search of openings, or natural chimneys, that might lead to the small, dry, mud-covered incline where the boys and their coach remain perched above water.
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Unlike in the rest of France, where villages are emptying out due to urban migration, here, whitewashed split-timber hamlets dot the velvety mountainsides, and close, intergenerational family networks are doing better than most.
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He wrote a book of children's tales that celebrate a way of life rooted in isolated hamlets where even today, on windswept mountainsides, people till fields of buckwheat with yoked oxen and wooden plows.
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If you're particularly keen to have a legal joint in Asia, legend might dictate to try North Korea, where reports have claimed it's freely available and blooming on mountainsides as readily as grass and wheat.
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I spent that ride with my mouth agape at the alpine-fairyland beauty of Slovenia in spring, the tiny, ancient towns clinging to the sides of steep mountainsides, sprayed with tiny yellow and purple flowers.
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In the air, the Conservation Department uses State Police helicopters to conduct seasonal patrols to spot shriveled trees on mountainsides or to search for animals that do not belong here, such as the Eurasian boar.
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Many of the Tarahumara, including Mr. Baldenegro and his family, were forced to leave their communities before the threat of armed men who arrived to clear the forest and plant marijuana on the deforested mountainsides.
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As Paul and Angelo run for their lives across Calabrian mountainsides, we learn two important facts that will come to bear on the farmhouse scene: First, Angelo loves his nonna more than anyone in the world.
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And we've yet to see the fire danger spike in southern California, which typically comes in the fall, when strong Santa Ana winds blow hot, dry air down mountainsides and through canyons, threatening a highly populated region.
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The Kaleidoscope is you Return to the Amber Fort to soak up the daytime atmospherics — the soft wind blowing through the open, pillared audience hall, and the crisp vista of mountainsides sloping down to a green lake.
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QUITO, Ecuador — The squat gray building in Ecuador's capital commands a sweeping view of the city's sparkling sprawl, from the high-rises at the base of the Andean valley to the pastel neighborhoods that spill up its mountainsides.
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Or at least I'm told this looks like Australia by the game's voice-over, as I speed a buggy out of tight city alleys, across sand dunes, over craggy mountainsides, into destructible crop lands, and through lush tropical forests.
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It is the drama as seen from the vantage point of the hunted, the police and dogs always just one step behind, hopscotching from rural roads to rutted mountainsides, dragging themselves through swamps and up and down steep inclines.
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Herve Verhoosel of the World Food Program said the floodwaters created "inland oceans extending for miles and miles in all directions," according to AP. The impacts: According to the Associated Press, bodies from Zimbabwe have been swept down mountainsides into Mozambique.
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I'd made assumptions on where these Towers might be (and shrines, and villages, and stables beside), educated guesses, chased my share of wild geese up flaming mountainsides; but here we were, here Link was, with the whole world before him.
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Before they headed off to meet some farmers and take part in the seasonal job of shearing some of the sheep that dot the area's mountainsides, William and Kate joined a celebration of people and local organizations close to their heart.
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By contrast, an ideological environmentalism, with its belief in imminent planetary catastrophe, will wind up sacrificing the local for the global in a green replay of destroying the village to save it, littering hills and mountainsides with wildlife-killing wind turbines.
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The latest Pacific storm, the third in two weeks, had been expected to drench local mountainsides with up to 10 inches (25 cm) of rain, and some street flooding occurred in Montecito, said Amber Anderson, a spokeswoman for the unified incident command.
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It is a vast area of enormous natural beauty famed for its ravines deeper than the Grand Canyon, the vibrant culture of the indigenous Rarámuri communities that pepper the mountainsides, as well as a long tradition of cultivating marijuana and opium poppy.
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Economists have also called for reporting rules so securities investors would know what portion of their bundled mortgages includes high risk from climate change, like properties in coastal regions, river flood plains, flammable canyons and mountainsides, earthquake zones, tsunami washout zones and tornado alleys.
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Nor did the lack of the usual stunning fields of flowers around the northern city, the region's most famous springtime feature, stop the legions of picnickers from laying their carpets on the green fields and mountainsides, although they dressed warmly against the chill of a lingering winter.
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A "sandwich," made with cracker-like slices of dried cod skin, contains a thin piece of salted gannet, a seabird common to the Faroes; a thinner slice of salted blubber, butchered from one of the eight hundred or so whales slaughtered annually in a community hunt; and a sprinkle of fresh herbs foraged from the mountainsides.
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Photograph by Anne Golaz for The New Yorker A sandwich made with dried cod skin; a thin piece of salted gannet, a seabird common to the Faroes; a thinner slice of salted blubber, butchered from one of the eight hundred or so whales slaughtered annually in a community hunt; and a sprinkle of fresh herbs foraged from the mountainsides.
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The ebullient tropical flora that forever feeds the nostalgia of those of us who leave for good — a paradise of flower beds in backyards and brilliant green forests on mountainsides, the skyline of towering fruit and palm trees — was in a state of distress, almost a kind of paralyzed melancholy, not unlike some of the people.
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Marden's Cold Mountain Paintings, perhaps his most famous body of work, from 1989-91, were inspired by the writings of the ninth-century Chinese poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan.) While traveling Mr. Marden visits flea markets and galleries looking at ancient art and has taken to collecting the naturally occurring rocks from riverbeds and mountainsides admired by Chinese scholars, who believed they could find paradise inside these spirit stones.
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