The country's rural population is shrinking. Governments and community activists are working to reimagine rural life in places like Kansas, but the drop-off continues.

Georgia Valaoras, Kostas Pistolas, Helen Yombre Sotiropoulou, Ecotourism Revives Rural Communities: The Case of the Dadia Forest Reserve, Evros, Greece, Mountain ...

In the development of modern rural tourism, it is necessary to deeply explore the characteristic rural culture and continuously enhance the tourism attraction of rural areas. Stimulated by the ...

The number of Americans who live in rural areas declined in the last decade, the first time in history that the nation’s rural population dropped between one U.S. census and the next. A new ...

Population datasets are often calibrated for urban environments, where population density is high and data is more accessible. But rural areas are harder to map, and the data we have is often ...

Rural America is continuing to get older, and a new report shows the extent has hit a new high. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's annual Rural America at a Glance report shows more than 20% of ...

It’s behind the rarest of trends: a rural Kansas county experiencing slight — 0.5% — population growth in recent years after seeing a marked dropoff the decade before.

While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly underrepresenting rural areas.

Nov. 20—LEWISBURG — Trends in Pennsylvania's population and demographics are troubling but there is reason for optimism, according to the executive director of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania.