Wreckhouse winds. Snow squalls off Lake Huron. Colorado lows. Keeping track of the weather is as much a geography lesson as anything. Place names, or toponyms, are integral in our daily lives. Just ...

Place names are more than just labels on a map. They influence how people learn about the world around them and perceive their place in it. Names can send messages and suggest what is and isn’t valued ...

The U.S. government has joined a ski resort and others that have quit using a racist term for a Native American woman by renaming hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features on ...