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The luxury of living along the coast of the Southeast has its benefits, but after a hurricane passes through, sometimes damage can linger longer than anyone would ever want.

When Gerry Thompson recently purchased his new home in Surfside Beach, he was missing a critical piece of information. The home had been built on a cemetery where enslaved people from a nearby plantation and their descendants had been buried. 

When Gerry Thompson recently purchased his new home in Surfside Beach, he was missing a critical piece of information.

Several dozen enslaved Africans — 63 as of an 1860 survey — worked and lived on the Ark Plantation in South Carolina, and historians believe scores of people could be buried in the cemetery. Official death records exist for around 60 people. Now, Surfside Beach is honoring that part of the town’s history.

When world leaders gathered virtually for a UN conference on biodiversity last month in the Chinese city of Kunming, one country was conspicuously missing from the event.

When world leaders gathered virtually for a UN conference on biodiversity last month in the Chinese city of Kunming, one country was conspicuously missing from the event.

Al Drago/Getty Images , a Vox reporting initiative on the science, politics, and economics of the biodiversity crisis. As President Joe Biden moves quickly to reinstate the full slate of environmental policies weakened by former President Donald Trump, including the landmark Migratory Bird Treaty Act, he’s signaling that climate change and biodiversity loss are now major priorities for the US. Earlier this month, the Interior Department also launched a campaign to conserve 30 percent of US l...