For decades, conservationists have pushed for changes to U.S. 64, a busy two-lane highway to the popular Outer Banks that runs straight through the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge – one of ...

(On the other hand, some American cities are exploding with population growth.) To determine the cities with shrinking downtowns, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed five-year data on population change from ...

There are an estimated 35 to 36 million deer in the U.S. Once hunted almost to extinction, they have made a successful recovery. In some states, deer are so plentiful that regular hunting is needed to ...

A map has revealed the final moments of the doomed American Airlines flight before it tragically crashed into the Potomac River in Washington DC, following a mid-air collision with a Black Hawk ...

Myths and Memories: Renaissance Maps is the first major display of the American Museum’s world-renowned collection in over a decade. More than 40 maps and objects will be on display, dating from ...

As a result, the Gulf of Mexico will be displayed on Google Maps as «Gulf of Mexico», and Mount Denali will revert to its historical name «Mount McKinley» (the mountain was renamed Denali in 2015 by ...

They love to climb, they love to get into stuff." As for the store's alligator population, Swinney says they can be well-behaved. "[The alligator's] mouth is taped for safety, but she's not too ...

In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million Black people living ...

is based on Pew Research Center tabulations of microdata from the Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey (ACS), provided through IPUMS from the University of Minnesota. The analysis identifies ...

“I heard a big, swishing noise, and so I looked to my left to see what it was, and sure enough, there was an alligator sitting right there,” a neighbor recalled Kimberlee Speakman is a digital ...

However, among the reptiles, the American alligator stands out for its remarkable ability to produce sounds that can be heard over long distances. Known scientifically as Alligator mississippiensis, ...

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