The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order to replace the name “Gulf of Mexico” with “Gulf of America” in state documents and ...

Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order to replace the name “Gulf of Mexico” with “Gulf of America” in state documents and ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis was the first state official to embrace the new name in an executive order declaring a State of Emergency over a Winter storm last month. That order said the inclement weather was ...

Landry's order directs state agencies, boards and officers to make the change to all published materials moving forward.

To do that, I’ll use what’s called latitude and longitude.Lines of latitude run around the Earth like imaginary hoops and have numbers to show how many degrees north or south they are from the ...

Boundary currents in the ocean impact our climate on a wide range of scales. The Gulf Stream, for example, being one of the prominent western boundary ...

Night - Clear. Winds from N to NNE. The overnight low will be 46 °F (7.8 °C). Sunny with a high of 69 °F (20.6 °C). Winds variable at 6 to 12 mph (9.7 to 19.3 kph). Mostly sunny today with a ...

This month marks the fifth anniversary of the pandemic. We asked students how their lives are different today because of it. By The Learning Network President Trump abruptly stopped providing ...

Mostly sunny with a high of 76 °F (24.4 °C). Winds S at 11 to 13 mph (17.7 to 20.9 kph). Night - Partly cloudy with a 53% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 12 to 16 mph (19.3 to 25.7 ...