Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...

The Gulf of Mexico and Denali mountain are having their names changed by the US government. Here's why that matters to locals ...

Perhaps more importantly, it contains some of the world’s largest deposits of key minerals, such as cobalt, which is ...

The Geographic Names Information ... In Google Maps in the United States, the sea is designated as the Sea of Japan (East Sea). A similar naming procedure is set to be used for the Gulf of Mexico in ...

Google updated its maps to align with the new federal guidelines provided by the United States Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System. Name change to Gulf of America and it’s ...

which frames the South Texas border region as a territory both physical and chimerical. On the one hand, it is a floodplain encompassing not only the Rio Grande, which divides the United States from ...

America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications ...

The United States has a rich history spanning ... like those that highlight the most well-known physical attributes of a ...

Nothing about Donald Trump’s second presidency bodes well for America’s allies and friends, including Canada, due to his ...

Thule is less known than other places in classical mythology like Atlantis. But Thule actually existed. The prickly question is, where was it?

With Trump killing off funding and staffing for research into climate and the Arctic, the U.S. polar science community is ...