Russian officials say rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil stranded onboard a tanker that ran ...

Trump also renamed Denali, North America’s tallest peak, as Mount McKinley, despite objections from Alaska’s senators.

Poppy, a six-year-old springer spaniel with floppy brown ears and a tail that never seems to stop wagging, is by all accounts ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after ...

The US has renamed the Gulf of Mexico "Gulf of America" through an executive order, though international recognition remains uncertain.

President Trump may have signed an executive order this week to officially rename the Gulf of Mexico, but it was Stephen ...

Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it ...

The baby king crab, known scientifically as Neolithodes agassizii, was found by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Although we humans certainly do like to think of ourselves as smart, we only just discovered a new species of whale. The Rice's whale.

The order Trump signed instructs the Interior Department to update the Geographic Names Information System to reflect the ...