Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...

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

A small earthquake struck New Jersey's Bergen County on Friday afternoon, around 1 p.m. local time, the United States ...

Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too ...

Seismologists have counted nine earthquakes in the Washington Cascades, in addition to the 3.5-magnitude event that happened ...

A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippines on Thursday, according to the United States ...

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

For years, as disputes over names on the map riled up nationalist passions in several parts of the world, US policymakers ...

Some recent studies found fluoride exposure is associated with cognitive impacts in children, but the research isn’t ...

Amid renewed calls to boost domestic energy production, including President Donald Trump's famous "drill, baby, drill" ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have identified massive reserves of naturally occurring hydrogen gas, also known ...