I clearly recall the factoid from high school geography, that Iceland was purposefully deceptively named and is actually ...

A new European Wetland Map shows Europe's peatlands, floodplains and coastal wetlands more comprehensively than ever before ...

I clearly recall the factoid from high school geography, that Iceland was purposefully deceptively named and is actually ...

Until recently the most that people tended to know about cold and sparsely populated Greenland is that it is not small and ...

I clearly recall the factoid from high school geography, that Iceland was purposefully deceptively named and is actually quite green, and that Greenland is largely a huge slab of ice.

As of January 24, map applications for Google and Apple still called the mountain and the gulf by their old names. Spokespersons for those platforms did not immediately respond to emailed questions. A ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President-elect Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name ...

If true, this would redefine Earth’s geography and shake the foundation of what we teach in schools. Dr. Phethean’s team revealed that Iceland and the Greenland-Iceland-Faroes Ridge (GIFR) are not ...

A map of where recombination occurs throughout the human genome now includes both types of variation. A genealogical database has been compiled in Iceland over the course of 30 years. We focused ...

National Geographic Endurance, in honor of explorer Ernest Shackleton's iconic Antarctic vessel. The incorporation to the fleet which took place in Reykjavik, Iceland was officially welcomed by ...

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday requiring the federal government to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on official maps – a change that could take ...