A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map.

Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...

Political scientist Mark Leonard has found that people around the world are far more optimistic about Trump's presidency than ...

The Gilman Fire broke out in La Jolla neighborhood today, while a brush fire at the border with Mexico, has engulfed 20 acres. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

LA County Sheriff says about 31,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders while another 23,000 were under evacuation ...

Dunleavy offered no opinion on Trump's decision to rename Denali as Mount McKinley, saying he wanted to speak with the president before sharing his own view.

Amid renewed calls to boost domestic energy production, including President Donald Trump's famous "drill, baby, drill" ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have identified massive reserves of naturally occurring hydrogen gas, also known ...

Water supplies are becoming increasingly limited across larges swathes of the United States, a new analysis reveals.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order demanding the body of water that runs along the United State’s ...

Just 2% of this amount could theoretically provide carbon-free fuel for the world for 200 years. “We estimate that the energy content of this recoverable hydrogen is roughly double the energy ...