All over the West, a housing crisis is causing workforce shortages, crippling local businesses, and threatening the culture and existence of mountain towns as we know them. But amid the doom and gloom, some people are fighting for solutions.

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

Who gets to decide when a destination is “at capacity”?

It was one of the most arresting viral photos of the year: a horde of climbers clogged atop Mount Everest. But it only begins to capture the deadly realities of what transpired that day at 29,000 feet.

Death, ISIS, and tourism in the Atlas Mountains.

The Berkeley Pit is a gorgeous, toxic former mining site in Montana that’s beloved by tourists. But unless it’s cleaned up soon, it could become the worst environmental disaster in American history.

The travel forum removed warnings about rapes and injuries at Mexico resorts, tourists say.

“Last August, I found myself wrung out and miserable over the state of the United States—the vitriol of the presidential election, the deep chasms of reality where we all seemed to find ourselves. I wanted to get the hell away, but not just away. I wanted out. I wanted nothing that resembled where I was coming from. I wanted everything new.”

On a 650-mile trek, two adventurers faced danger and hardship—and saw how development could spoil an American icon.

What increased tourism means for the people of the Northwest Passage.

What really happened at 2475 Glendower Place.

On the underground economy of full-service Southern California apartment complexes marketed to Chinese birth-tourists.

The ramifications of a U.S. company’s tourism operation on former Maasai land.

Visiting the site of the Chernobyl meltdown.

Eco-tourism in the Himalayas.

The valley is everything you'd want and more. An icy milky river thunders over rocks and below steep wooded slopes are lush fields where people are working the land, oblivious to the Gore-Tex procession. Oblivious but not unaffected: the houses are smart, the prayer wheels freshly painted, just about everyone has a mobile phone, it seems, and is on it, and there are very few places you can't get a signal around here. This is not really the place to come if you're looking for peace and quiet.

Colonialism, the convertible peso, and the strange dance between the cheap beach tourist and the tour guide tout.

We ate in our own restaurants, stayed in our own hotels, and hired our own guides. We moved through a parallel Paris—and a parallel Rome, Milan, and so on.

The reporter takes a whirlwind guided bus tour of a Europe with a group of Chinese tourists.

From the Tower of Babel to the birthplace of Abraham, from Saddam’s ruined palaces to fortified blast-proof checkpoints, a diary from a nine-day, eight-night tour of Mespotamia/Iraq.

At tourism’s wildest frontier; guided tours of Afghanistan.