A harrowing expedition through one of the world's great delta regions reveals the threats it faces––and the wealth of life it sustains. Complex, ever changing patterns of water and land ...

Five years later, scientists solved the mystery of why more than 300 elephants died in Africa in a couple of months.

Grinding poverty was not the only reason African Americans left the Delta. In the 1920s, the threat of racial violence loomed over the South. The law in the Delta had never offered much protection ...

The Okavango Delta is probably the closest any of us will get to the Garden of Eden. It was here in northern Botswana, about 200,000 years ago, that the first modern humans were born. They lived ...