On Thursday, Symmonds fulfilled a longtime goal, submitting the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, and becoming ...

Trump’s discretionary budget request for NASA would cut $1.1 billion in funding for Earth observation programs, including ...

A French woman climber has made history in Everest climbing as she became the youngest female from her country to stand atop ...

Oregon lawmakers aim to speed up the process for renaming dozens of creeks, lakes, mountains and other sites that still hold ...

Viridiana Álvarez, 39, set a Guinness World Record after climbing all of the world’s 14 peaks above 8,000 meters and the ...

But all of the geographic renaming is really just frosting, the decorations on a cake. It’s a distraction from the real goals. And, to use an apt idiom, what really takes the cake is the dismantling ...

Whychus Creek, renamed in 2006, was previously one of several locations in Oregon named after a slur used against Indigenous ...

A Japanese geographical name expert said Japan is free to decide on its own if it will follow U.S. President Donald Trump's demands that the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali be renamed. Hiroshi ...

Corenne Black, a ranger with the New York State Department of Conservation, has summited 1,000 peaks and is planning for more ...