The Biden administration’s Department of the Interior on Thursday announced the replacement names for nearly 650 geographical features that had names deemed “racist and derogatory.” The Board on ...

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 ...

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, ...

Geography is the study of people and place. It is a wide-ranging discipline. Geographers are interested in how natural processes, people and systems are affected by the specifics of a place—location ...

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 ...

FARGO— Every summer we are asked about a particular geographic feature that affects storms. Someone on a lake or near a ridge seems to always miss the worst of summer thunderstorms. However, a large, ...