Eugene Scheel, a longtime local author, historian and mapmaker, was the man of the hour as more than 100 people gathered Jan.

The most devastating wildfire in Los Angeles history continues to burn, evoking comparisons to The Great Chicago Fire that ...

The Los Angeles wildfires are being fueled by what the National Weather Service said could be the strongest Santa Ana ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, because "it's ours." Who owns ...

President-elect Donald Trump has said he will rename the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America," during a news conference on Jan ...

It can be easier to change the name of a landmark or body of water is within a country's boundaries. In 2015, then-President Barack Obama approved an order from the Department of Interior to rename ...

As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called ...

Johnson. Photograph by Krista Rossow, Nat Geo Image Collection In 1978, Congress nearly doubled the national park’s initial size with the addition of about 36,000 acres that had been logged.

At the same time, as the population in the United States rises and people increasingly ... Photograph by Mark Thiessen, National Geographic Before and after a home burned down in the Smiley ...

National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused on the positive when it came to forest fires: the solutions people are working on.

Fort Huachuca, Arizona – The United States Army Network Enterprise Technology ... aimed at developing new operational concepts for the Geographic Combatant Commander Communication Teams.

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Critics, including the Humane Society of the United States, which does not endorse keeping dolphins in captivity ...