"As directed by the President, the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America," the Interior ...

After mapmakers in 1507 first attached the label America to a ... to name a spit of land in the Atlantic after Amerigo was a choice difficult to undo. Words on maps, it turned out, had sticking ...

Alonso Álvarez de Pineda made the first map labeling those waters as the Gulf of Mexico in 1519. Before that, you likely ...

There is a 'mismatch' between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been.” Written and illustrated by Jake Berman. University of ...

Google Maps now labels the Gulf of America for U.S. users, and the Gulf of Mexico for those in Mexico. This isn't the first ...

Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting poultry and wild water birds, posing significant global challenges due to its high mortality rates and economic impacts. Highly ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

A lighthearted petition to buy the state of California for Denmark prompted more than 200,000 signatures by Wednesday in ...