The history of the United States is such, though, that many of its towns and cities have simply been given names honoring ...

Though measuring animal intelligence is tricky, some animals show remarkable cognitive abilities that may rival our own.

Nearly 400 miles from where Hurricane Helene made landfall, the North Carolina mountain hamlet of Chimney Rock Village has ...

Sara Meerow is an urban heat expert at Arizona State University in Tempe, a city just to the east of Phoenix in Maricopa County. Last year, 645 heat-related deaths were recorded in the county. Heat ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... she tells him, “They have no wine,” thus prompting his first miracle. It was in A.D. 431, at the Third ...

and I like his sense of geography--nothing like crafting a narrative to take revenge on your enemies, so meticulous in its construction, you could make a complete map of Hell and know exactly ...

Perched 90 miles north and a world away from Los Angeles, with stunning views of the Pacific lined by the Santa Ynez Mountains, this stretch of coastline would draw newcomers based on geography alone.

Introducing us to the Gaza area, he opened a large map ... geography of Gaza at the time. I had never heard of the Philadelphi Corridor, but that finger drawn over that border and the words ...

Intrepid figures like Christopher Columbus and Marco Polo shattered the myths of unreachable lands, offering a new understanding of global geography. Here's how maps have evolved through the ages.

While many of the outages were reported in regions dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, they haven't been confined to those areas, with Down Detector's heat map indicating outages ... the ...