By 1830, there were more than 2 million slaves in the United States, worth over a billion dollars (compared to annual federal revenues of less than 25 million). And their numbers were growing.

NASA Earth Observatory map of drought conditions, using U.S. Drought Monitor data. Only 26.82 percent of U.S. land area had ...

A disturbance that's nearing the Southeast ... off the Georgia coast in association with a small area of low pressure. That activity is ongoing near the "X" in the outlook map below from the ...

Your support allows us to keep sending journalists to the story ... bringing storm surge and high winds across the state's Gulf Coast communities before ripping into southern Georgia.

For the first time, scientists have found evidence that marine mammals could be inhaling microplastics, according to new research that detected the potentially harmful particles in the breath of ...

The disturbance is forecast to become Hurricane Helene on Wednesday as it approaches the Gulf Coast, according to ... Heavy rainfall also is forecast for the southeast U.S. starting on Wednesday ...

The majority of soybean and grain exports from the Gulf or East Coast would not be impacted by the negotiations between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the United States ...

eat the same species of fish and live along the coast, she added. “This is an important finding but is rather unsurprising owing to the ubiquity of microplastics in the environment,” Merrill said.