The definition: An atmospheric river (AR) is a long plume of moisture that stretches from the tropics or subtropics into ...

The idea of heading west to settle in vast, rugged and wild lands has been a romanticized notion since the beginnings of our ...

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The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in ...

Happy birthday, Michigan! The Mitten State was granted statehood on Jan. 26, 1837 — 188 years ago today. But many chapters of ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

The president-elect did not campaign for the presidency on annexing Canada, but since winning the election, he has regularly ...

President Donald Trump ordered the Gulf of Mexico renamed, and Gov. DeSantis officially refers to it in a state document.

In a wine shop an hour outside of Washington, owner Arthur Lampros sampled a wine from a part of the world that was totally ...

United States President Donald Trump’s executive orders have crept into the realm of digital cartography. Google announced on Monday that its online mapping platform, Google Maps, will change ...

The Armed Forces of the Philippines said the United States deployed a carrier strike group to the West Philippine Sea for the ...

As a child of immigrants, writer Mennlay Golokeh Aggrey acknowledges the privilege of being an American living abroad.