The Gulf of Mexico has had its name for about 400 years. In his book, The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, published in 1589, English geographer Richard ...

Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico. Here's what that means legally and politically, according to experts.

Not all of the Gulf of Mexico, whose name dates back to the 1600s, will become the “Gulf of America,” though. Trump’s executive order didn’t include the whole gulf, only the parts in U.S ...

Oil continues to spill from the rig wreckage in the Gulf of Mexico. While many commentators are beginning to discuss the disaster's political fallout, the environmental impact is the more ...

Trump's executive order renaming the gulf also reverses an Obama-administration geography name-change by reverting the name of the Alaska mountain "Denali" to "Mount McKinley." ...