You might be hearing about the gulf off the coast of the U.S. and Mexico. Here's what to know about the body of water the ...

Researchers have identified priority areas for conserving the black-tailed prairie dog in the United States. Protecting these regions will also benefit North America's Central Grasslands and the many ...

To put that in perspective, New Orleans is on the same latitude (or at least the northern hemisphere equivalent) as Coffs ...

The map also dubs North America as "America Mexicana," or Mexican America. Mexico’s first female president joked that Mexican America has a nice ring to it as a new name for the U.S. Those 16th ...

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

The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September ...

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

Now Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has some ideas of her own for some new naming ... fact that a map from 1607 gave that name, appearing as “America Mexicana,” to the land we now ...

Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

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 ...

Colorado and New Mexico. The map uses six classifications to describe the intensity and geography of drought conditions across the U.S., with “abnormally dry,” or D0, considered the lowest ...

The Bureau of Land Management New Mexico State Office today opened a 30-day public scoping period to receive public input on 21 oil and gas parcels totaling 8,860 acres that may be included in a ...