Though it has some of the world's most significant reserves, Latin America has not emerged as a key player in the rare earth ...

It was 1993, and Bunker was looking for the Gulf of Mexico. Really he was just looking for the water. Bunker, a Seattle kid turned Iowa Hawkeye, had come to Florida’s Panhandle during winter break for ...

The U.S. relies heavily on China for imports, while its other adversaries have significant reserves of the increasingly ...

After mapmakers in 1507 first attached the label America to a massive world map printed in France, they began to have serious misgivings about their choice of words. A mere six years later ...

The National Hurricane Center recently changed the Gulf of Mexico on its storm tracking map to the Gulf of America.

Apple maps and Bing Maps have also changed the name to Gulf of America on their apps. Here's what to know about the recent switch and the names some people have given it using a new site by MapQuest.

In November, we folded our sister newsletter MapLab into CityLab Daily, but we’d promised to bring you occasional editions. Today’s MapLab comes from CityLab reporter Linda Poon. Hate it or ...

Google has tacitly admitted to removing negative reviews objecting to renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on Google Maps.

“Gulf of America” is now in official use on a U.S. government database of geographic names and on Google Maps after President Donald Trump last month issued an executive order to rename the ...

The former Gulf of Mexico has officially been designated as the Gulf of America. Sort of. Anyone in the United States using Google Maps will see the large body of water west of Florida as the ...