Solar flares can affect us on Earth, and radiation from this flare caused a shortwave radio blackout. A map released by the ...

A 1985 study of mental world maps found that geographers had the same misconceptions of the relative latitude of cities in North America and Europe as everyone else. Cartographers aren’t immune ...

The snow-capped Mount Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain in North America at an elevation of 6,190 metres (20,308 feet) ...

Google also said Denali, a mountain in southern Alaska and North America's tallest peak, is going to be called Mount McKinley on its maps for those same users, reflecting the presidential mandate.

Sheinbaum Pardo projected a map authored in 1607 that labels a rough drawing of North America as "America Mexicana," or Mexican America, and also names the Gulf of Mexico, already at the time a ...

In North America, arctic tundra is found in northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. You can expect a native "tree" to be extremely small and in the willow family.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on Monday.

Google Maps posted on X it would change the name ... the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America and North America’s highest peak will once again bear the name Mount ...