Trump also renamed Denali, North America’s tallest peak, as Mount McKinley, despite objections from Alaska’s senators.

The Trump administration's Interior Department said on Friday it had officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ...

The Trump administration’s Interior Department said on Friday it had officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ...

A Wisconsin-based geographer writes in a commentary that in the U.S., place names are standardized by the U.S. Board on ...

Numerous New Jersey residents took to social media early Friday afternoon, reporting loud booms, rattling and shaking from an ...

Nestled along the rugged coastline of Fort Bragg, California, Jug Handle State Natural Reserve is a hidden gem that’s been ...

It’s been four years since I’ve talked about this designated botanical area in the center of Yavapai County. Not much has changed in the context of the landscape as it ...

Seismologists have counted nine earthquakes in the Washington Cascades, in addition to the 3.5-magnitude event that happened near North Bend on Monday.

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after ...

As wildfires burn the landscape, they prime slopes for debris flows: powerful torrents of rock, mud and water that sweep downhill with deadly momentum.

The National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution map of waterways, created by the US Geological Survey, is the highest-resolution survey of its kind. With nearly 25 million rivers, streams, pipe ...