An apparent earthquake was reported in the Tri-State area on Monday.A 3.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded in southern ...

The United States Geological Survey confirmed that an earthquake impacted parts of Ohio early Tuesday morning.

President Donald Trump's executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Denali, the tallest peak in the country, has resulted in lots of discussion.

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

For centuries, maps depicted California as an island—a mystery that puzzled explorers and historians alike. This video dives into the origins of this misconception, from 16th-century maps and ...

The massive, multinational corporation announced Monday that it would bend to an executive order, signed by Trump on his ...

In the U.S., place names are standardized by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, which is part of the U.S. Geological Survey, ...

Millions of Americans are under weather warnings or advisories today as the U.S. braces for a new winter storm this week. A ...

Seven or eight hundred thousand years ago, our section of the Ohio River was an insignificant stream flowing north, and the region to the south which was to become the ancestral homeland of hoopies ...

By Stephen Smoot  West Virginia serves as one of the leading producers of energy in the United States, ranking fifth among all states in that category. Most associate West Virginia with coal and ...

Researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have assembled a national database with millions of multi-day ...