President-elect Donald Trump suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico after the U.S. But can he really do that? Here's how place names are determined.

In an almost offhand digression Tuesday, president-elect Donald Trump idly mentioned he was going to change the name of the ...

A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday, Jan. 7, during a news conference from Mar-a-Lago the Gulf of Mexico will be ...

Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan — or "Valley of the Whales" — is famous for its abundance of fossils from the Eocene epoch.

"Bare of a scintillating coat of ice, the trees of Miller Park now stand revealed in all the gruesomeness of their shattered symmetry." This local history and more: ...

It’s said that entrepreneurship runs in the blood of Indians. From our grandmothers running their pickle businesses (wildly successful but tragically unmonetised) to our fathers inventing ways ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is giving notice of a comment period on draft chapters of the Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessment.