1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations. 1739: The Stono rebellion breaks out around Charleston ...

A sundown town [...] is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was ‘all white’ on purpose," researchers write ...

Everyday people helped create the map by providing information about bird sightings to eBird, a free online database used by ...

The headline above the map from 1937 ... implication that America's southern neighbor would enter the war on the Axis side ...

More than 75 cities in 30 countries in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean are connected by Copa Airlines. (Photo via iStock / Getty Images Plus/anouchka). South America is a nature ...

A new species of flatworm has been found invading the U.S., having already spread across Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. The species, named Amaga pseudobama, was discovered in North Carolina in ...

"A first step to protect species, and thus biodiversity, is to understand where those are located," a researcher said.

South America is seeing a record number of wildfires, and a smoky haze hung in the air in cities like São Paulo this week.

Give pupils an outline map of the ... piece of land to North America. Practice globe tossing games with blow-up globes and ask pupils to identify continents and point to South America when they ...

Intense wildfires in Canada have sparked pollution alerts across swathes of North America as smoke is blown south along the continent's east coast. Toronto, Ottawa, New York and Washington DC are ...

Storms of this strength have been known to bring the northern lights as far south as Illinois and Oregon, and according to the SWPC’s forecasting, that may just be the case with this storm.