Just hours after he took office in January, Trump instructed the US Board on Geographic Names to make the change.

Scientists discovered a magma cap almost 2.5 miles below the surface at Yellowstone National Park. Here’s what that means for ...

Mexico has called on Google to not change the name of the Gulf of Mexico for US users, despite Trump’s executive order.

A long period of drought in North America has been recognized by scientists for decades. A new study links the severe climate to a change in Earth's orbit.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her government has sued Google for calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on ...

All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

The Republican-controlled House passed a bill that would solidify President Donald Trump’s move to rename the Gulf of Mexico ...

US President Donald Trumps claim that the Canada-US border is an “imaginary line” oversimplifies centuries of treaties, ...

Achieving independence as the United States of America was a lengthy and unlikely struggle for the 13 original colonies. Over ...

And while the corporate VC is technically a global firm, its focus today is weighted more heavily toward North America ... applying AI tools to the physical world like manufacturing, is also ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal North Carolina and discovered a star-shaped ...