The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Hubbard, who first joined the USGS as a postdoc, is part of the agency’s Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI).

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

Google Maps will change the name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America when the US government officially makes the change ...

In the final days of the Biden administration, officials started soliciting public opinion on future oil and gas development ...

Google Maps said it would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and Denali to Mount McKinley once it is ...

The GNIS contains more than one million records for geographic features in the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the ...

On Monday, the National Weather Service called it a once in a generation event. At least 8 inches fell in New Orleans, where ...

Areas throughout Alabama experience heavy snow amid an record-breaking historic winter storm spread across in the Southern ...

Stroll on a snowy path and past frozen waterfalls on this little known hike in New Hampshire that's fun for the whole family.

Florida, Alabama ... España and Golfo de México on various maps and documents, and there are at least 32 different versions ...