As of Wednesday night, map applications for Google and Apple still called the mountain and the gulf by their old names.

A Russian spy ship seen in U.K. waters points to continuing worries over the safety of undersea cables that link the global economy.

While these changes are largely symbolic, they’ve prompted mapmakers and educators to reconsider established labels. Florida ...

President Trump’s territorial assertions sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other world leader.

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of ...

Scientists researching Alpine glaciers store ice in Antarctica. By analysing air bubbles in the ice they may be able to predict the future ...