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.) ...

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 ...

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

After years of legal battles that left the fossil locked away in labs or warehouses, the famed find is headed to the North Carolina Museum ... Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.

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 ...

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

After losing friends to suicide, Wade Jefferson, a student at the University of South Carolina, wanted to work towards squashing stigmas around mental health. He started the college’s Mental ...

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

South Carolina is home to a lot of alligators. Around 100,000 of them, to be exact. Although it is fewer than in some states, ...

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 ...

"Before flowering plants appeared," says Dale Russell, a paleontologist with North Carolina State University ... plant grows only on New Caledonia, a South Pacific island famous among botanists ...