Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates. “This superb ...

Because of pollution threats, global warming, and its economic importance, the Gulf of Mexico is one of the world’s most studied bodies of water, featured in some 30,000 recent academic ...

It diminishes and reduces the epic history of the Gulf of Mexico. Even trickier, it politicizes everyday speech. Not using “Gulf of America” forces me into a corner of Trump’s choosing.

President Donald Trump followed through on his promise to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America.". Trump issued an executive order shortly after taking office to rename the gulf, and in ...

The Gulf of Mexico has been so named at least since the late 1600s, when it was used to describe the body of water that's bordered to the north by the United States' southern coast, from Texas to ...

Google Maps now labels the Gulf of America for U.S. users, and the Gulf of Mexico for those in Mexico. This isn't the first body of water to have different names according to different countries.

While Google has complied with Trump’s order, Apple has not yet updated the name of the Gulf of Mexico or Denali on its Maps app. When searching “Gulf of America” on Apple Maps, the app did ...

The first action is for the Department of the Interior to adopt the name change, which it did on Jan. 24 it announced that as "directed by the president, the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be ...

Google has removed diversity events like Pride and Black History Month from its calendar app and renamed the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps.. On Monday, the tech giant announced it had followed the ...