Colorado's weather can be confusing, and not just from a forecasting standpoint. Storm forecasts usually include geographical or "pseudo-geographical" features, as the National Weather Service office ...
Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the most storied maritime disaster in history, National Geographic magazine and a team of researchers have unveiled new images of the Titanic, revealing ...
Biologists have developed a new method to measure the extent to which regional geographic features — including barriers between regions, like mountains or water — affect local rates of speciation, ...
The North Bay is home to a plethora of scenic state parks, but National Geographic named four “natural wonders”: Mount Tamalpais State Park, Samuel P Taylor State Park, Hendy Woods State Park and Salt ...
A map shows 18 places in Washington state that are up for renaming in compliance with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s February proposal to remove the word “sq___” — an ethnic and sexual slur for ...
SEATTLE — A state board has renamed five geographic features that included slurs about Native American women. The features getting a new moniker are a Puget Sound passage in Jefferson County, a ditch ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland declared the word “squaw” a derogatory term in November and her department is now taking the next steps to change the names of ...