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 ...

Before President Donald 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 ...

Trump's decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico has been met with mixed results. While some U.S. citizens who live in places like Florida have gladly welcomed the name change, others appear irked.

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.

The Trump administration has made clear that the reason for the ban is that the news service has continued to refer to the Gulf of Mexico, rather than the Gulf of America. On his first day in ...

Before President Donald 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 ...

Alabama lawmakers moved closer to renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Wednesday. The Alabama House Ports, Waterways and Intermodal Committee, voting along party lines ...

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 filing a lawsuit.

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 ...