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

Researchers say they are now trying to figure out where exactly the minuscule plastic particles may be heading from the Matagorda Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. The Bay is home to a plastics factory ...

A visitor to the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans was ruffled by signage at the formerly named Gulf of Mexico exhibit ... rename the north of the Gulf of Mexico as "the Gulf of America" and to ...