This kind of legal maneuvering is booming. Four states created preemptions this year alone with two only narrowly failing in South Carolina and Alabama. Often, efforts to preempt plastic bans are ...

FEMA’s maps underplay risks everywhere, but especially in mountainous regions like rural North Carolina and Tennessee ... not respond to a request by National Geographic for an interview.) ...

Dr. Ted Goudge, a Shenandoah native and retired Associate Professor of Geography at Northwest Missouri State University, has ...

Carolina Gold rice is important to Gullah Geechee cuisine, which is a remnant of the enslaved West Africans forcibly brought to the Low Country of South Carolina and Georgia. For some African ...

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A team led by Gianpiero Cavalleri at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin pieced together the new map using the genetics ... the older they are. National Geographic’s Miguel Vilar, lead ...

contact the South Carolina Groundwater Association to get more information. To report an open well in Sumter National Forest, you can contact one of these USFS locations: Maps and plans for the ...

Last week, scientists launched plastic water bottles outfitted with GPS systems into two Raleigh creeks to research the ...

Which beach is best for you and your family? Use our guide to help you decide where to put your umbrella and chairs.

From King Tut’s tomb to the Dead Sea Scrolls, there’s seemingly nothing archaeologists can’t unearth. So why haven’t they found Atlantis yet? It’s a question regularly fielded by real ...

China is roaring down a path being forged by its aging neighbors, Japan and South Korea ... a demographer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “This is a new chapter yet to ...

Arab nations have pushed for a change to the geographic name of the body of water off the ... and Meg Kinnard in Chapin, South Carolina, contributed to this report.