We often hear about farmers clearing land to graze cattle or grow crops. Paradoxically, the opposite is also happening. Since 1950, farmers around the world have simply walked away from millions of ...

In southern Bulgaria, in the village of Tyurkmen, many brick houses sit empty. Their tile roofs are falling in. Gergana Daskalova, an ecologist who spent summers here with her grandparents as a young ...

A family has ditched the UK and bought an abandoned home in Bulgaria for a mere £8k in a bid live mortgage-free. Maxwell, 38, and Leah Jones, 29, have always aspired to live self-sufficiently and said ...

Farmland is being abandoned across Europe as it's difficult to make a living. Some ecologist fear that some plant and species will lose ground but some hope that other species may fill in the gaps. We ...