Chemical suppliers for lithium-ion batteries have been accused of misleading regulators, hiding information and contaminating communities while making related products.

A one-of-a-kind project in the Francis Marion National Forest is trying to use sprinklers to help save the eastern black rail, a mysterious bird that enthusiasts consider among the most challenging to spot.

South Carolina lightning bugs rely on wetlands and damp environments to survive. Those habitats are being pressured by a growing population and changing ecosystem.

Deveaux Bank is one of the nation's most important way stations for migratory birds, but more intense and frequent storms have put much of it under water. The same squeeze affects other state-owned rookeries, and DNR has made them off limits during nesting season. But not Deveaux.

Power companies and lawmakers are pushing hard for a new gas-fired power plant, likely at a site along the Edisto River. But the push carries echoes of what happened before the failed plan to build the V.C. Summer nuclear station north of Columbia, a project that set $9 billion on fire.

Microplastics are a pervasive issue in bodies of water across the globe. A new project reveals how much of the pollutant is present in Charleston's water bodies.

In 1970, the world's first experimental deep-sea mining operation took place 130 miles off the South Carolina coast. Scientists recently went back. Their shocking photos, released on Feb. 19, come just months before the international seabed could open up to commercial mining.

A deep-sea coral province 100 miles southeast of Charleston was recently confirmed as the largest known reef of its kind. Warming oceans could damage its ecosystem.

The Brantley Thomas embezzlement scandal rocked Berkeley County, where Thomas steered the school systems' finances for decades — and stole $1.3 million from taxpayers. But a deep look by The Post and Courier's Uncovered project reveals more to the story. 

A South Carolina exploration company’s revelation that it may have found the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane generated a burst of optimism that one of aviation’s greatest mysteries may be solved — and deep skepticism among some longtime searchers who say there’s no way it could be Earhart’s plane.

Amelia Earhart search yields possible clue, thanks in part to advances in underwater drones and more sophisticated sonar.

A new South Carolina ocean exploration company said it recently discovered an object in the South Pacific with a shape and size similar to Amelia Earhart's plane.

A battle between endangered bats and coastal developers revs up in the South. Is the problem bigger than bats? Experts point to history as a sign of what's to come. 

The lawsuit comes amid an ongoing national debate over fees some hospital trauma wards charge, markups that health researchers have found especially prevalent at for-profit hospital chains such as HCA, the nation's largest.

The JMS Burn Center in Augusta, Georgia, is the nation’s largest burn unit, but its future is in jeopardy after the death of Fred Mullins, a burn doctor who helped drive the center’s national expansion.

Doug Smith lost his medical license in 2009 for unsafely prescribing pain pills. Then his lab to test for traces of drugs in pain patients' urine was shut down by the feds. Now, the walls may be closing in on his telemedicine addiction treatment business.

The inside story about a man who nearly died in an explosion in Spartanburg, how it led to a $30 million medical bill and an enduring lesson in the power of family.

West Ashley teacher and professional Muay Thai boxer Anna Toole battled for a green belt from the World Boxing Council. Cinching the title would effectively name Toole the best 115-pound female Muay Thai boxer on the continent.

Disaster flooding could displace nearly a thousand Charleston homeowners in the coming decade. To plan ahead, city officials decided to look back — searching for residents who, years ago, left their homes with the city's first FEMA buyouts. 

South Carolina was the architect of prosecuting pregnant women for drug use. A positive test still can set in motion a process that lands women behind bars, childless and lacking support, a Post and Courier investigation found.

Some think it's a nickname, but Smiley happens to be this Folly Beach UPS driver's actually name. 

The Post and Courier visuals team spent 24 hours on Folly Beach to capture what happens in this seaside town on a typical day.

In south end neighborhoods, landlords own up to 80 percent of the houses.

Winning the World Boxing Council's green belt is a chance for Anna Toole to prove herself as a top female professional athlete in a sport with so few of them. It's a chance to put Charleston Muay Thai and Boxing on the map. And it’s a chance to pave the way for other fighters at the female-dominated gym to follow in her footsteps.

Charleston's Spring-Fishburne Drainage Improvement Project won't see its three giant pumps installed until late 2025, another delay in one of the city's key flood-prevention pushes.

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Saint-Louis, Senegal, is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to rising seas. With a new sea wall, the city also offers lessons for other cities, like Charleston, considering similar barriers.

Meet climate researchers in Senegal who know through science and personal experience how global warming there affects the entire world, including hurricanes that strike South Carolina.

La poussière saharienne a un impact important sur la survie ou la mort des ouragans.

Saharan dust plays a big role in whether hurricanes form off Africa — and strike the United States. Climate change is affecting this important hurricane nursery. 

In Georgia and the Carolinas, lithium is quickly becoming king: it pushes up through the ground, oozes through recyclers’ shredding machines and will soon travel through the backwoods on aging rail lines to be bolted into the cars of the future. 

How climate change is threatening S.C. septic tanks from below.

For years, many historians said the Wanderer was the last slave ship to bring captive Africans to America. Others said the Clotilda was the last. Then, in the murky waters north of Mobile, Alabama, a reporter found an old shipwreck. What happened next reveals a timeless tale about history and distortion. 

Medical companies have introduced dozens of new skin substitutes for people suffering with chronic wounds. Some health care experts say skin substitutes speed healing, while others say evidence of their cost-effectiveness is lacking. One thing is clear: They can be expensive, as a retiree from Daniel Island discovered after he skinned his shin.

About 230 of the 550 structures are at least 30 years old, the newspaper’s analysis found. They've survived the immediate impacts of flooding and hurricanes but have reached an age where corrosion can threaten their long-term viability.

Michael Bartley’s hiring in the coroner's office comes amid lingering questions in the death this year of a South Carolina State student — a case Bartley worked on, according to the student’s family. The 2013 federal conviction could make it difficult for him to testify in court as it goes directly to his credibility, one legal expert said.

Renaissance Tower residents were evacuated from the 22-story building in October. The same saltwater that makes these tall coastal buildings attractive is patiently, persistently attacking them. 

On-the-job fatalities at Detyens have mounted amid red flags from a Navy leader and federal investigators.