For more than a century, South Africa’s mining industry has measured success in tonnes extracted, metres drilled, and shifts completed. Those metrics still matter, but they no longer define ...

National Correspondent; Anchor, "CBS Weekend News" Jericka Duncan is a national correspondent and anchor of the "CBS Weekend News." She's based in New York City. Kerry Breen is a news editor at ...

TOWANDA, Pa. — Juneteenth is a federal holiday, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Northeastern Pennsylvania is marking the holiday with a brand new suite of tours, centering on ...

An untouched backyard mystery pond gets drained after six months, and the discoveries keep getting stranger. Giant colorful crawfish, baby crawfish, betta fish, guppies, eels, catfish, and plecos ...

Failure to capture accurate data is misrepresenting the health of people of African descent around the world at home and abroad. When a 65-year-old woman in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, arrives at a clinic ...

Like a naughty pet Labrador, the Australian lungfish has little restraint when it comes to food. "We had 360 sqm of aquatic plants growing inside enclosures; but, once the fences were removed, ...

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Some organisms survive extreme conditions by suspending life processes, such as tardigrades entering cryptobiosis. Wood frogs and Arctic ground squirrels endure freezing temperatures through ...

For over half a century, people in Central Africa have told tales of the fish seen climbing waterfalls, but these claims have never been officially confirmed. Now, these fish have finally been caught ...

One cold morning in 1980, when I was not yet four years old, my mother woke me while it was still dark, pressing her face against my cheek. “We have to leave,” she whispered. “Right away.” I rolled ...