The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has puzzled researchers since 2011. A new model demonstrates that the alga was brought to the tropics by strong currents, and thrived in ideal growing conditions.

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Google, Apple and Bing Maps have changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America following an executive order from President Trump. MapQuest has not yet updated its map to reflect Trump's order.

A Star-Telegram analysis shows many Texas agencies have yet to comply with President Donald Trump’s recent executive order requiring the federal government to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the ...

A bill in the Iowa Legislature would require schools to use Gulf of America instead Gulf of Mexico. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office to change the name ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Monday it’s awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before ...

Before President Trump, the most high-profile call to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico came from Stephen Colbert, who joked on his Comedy Central show in 2010 that the body of water should be ...

The agency has retained access to the White House complex itself. The AP says in its stylebook that the Gulf of Mexico has carried that name for more than 400 years. As a global news agency ...

Other, lesser-known mapping services, including OpenStreetMap and HERE WeGo, also continue to use Gulf of Mexico as the official name. Although Google decided to follow Trump's executive order on ...

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo urged Google on Thursday to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" for U.S. users of Google Maps, threatening to file a ...