People pushing walkers, carts and strollers began lining up Wednesday morning outside Shiloh Church in Oakland three hours before the start of a weekly food distribution event. For Rochelle Lopez, a ...

There are awesome hiking trails, a couple of grassy parks, and good shopping areas alongside excellent restaurants and bars.

“At the end, they traded millet for milk.” A reminder that they’re interdependent: farmers feed the herders, and herders fertilize the land with manure. Beyond dialogue, there are practical ...

A spokesperson confirmed with USA TODAY that at least 40 to 50 hippos were found deceased at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Reuters first reported the news.

[Narrator] Hippos outweigh lions ten to one and are rarely targeted as prey. But everyone is fractious. And hungry lions can do crazy things. The mother makes her choice. Better the melee than the ...

USA TODAY reached out to Virunga National Park for comment. Photos shared by the park show the hippos lifeless in the water. Some readers may find the images below disturbing. According to the ...

Lake Edward once housed the largest hippo population in the world, a figure decimated by conflict since 1994. Getty Images This beastly tragedy comes as strife is felt across the Democratic ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo — Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park, which is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east ...

The deaths represent a major loss for the park, which has been working to increase the number of hippos in recent decades after poaching and war reduced the population from over 20,000 to a few ...

More than 200 hippos are threatening the ecosystem. In response, biologist Forrest Galante traveled to the country to help curb this environmental crisis. The situation has escalated to such an ...