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 ...

New York State is loaded with towns and villages (and some big cities) with near impossible names to pronounce. Here are a 12 ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum joked that if Trump went ahead with the renaming, her country would rename North America ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...

The country's fiery liquid landscape shifts, on a massive scale. By Michael Dumiak Kristín Jóhannsdóttir woke at two in the ...

A wall of ice the size of Rhode Island is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals.

Take advantage of the country’s expansive bike trail network while also visiting some of the top wine regions on the planet.

The emerald ash borer is an invasive beetle from Asia that feeds on all native ash trees in New York. After being accidentally transported to the U.S. in infested crates, it has killed millions of ash ...

As for Germany, Robert Kaplan writes in his illuminating book "The Revenge of Geography" it "faces both east and west with no mountain ranges to protect it, providing it with pathologies from ...

Shakespeare was accustomed to making the stage a metaphor for life. “All the world’s a stage,/ and all the men and women ...