As of Wednesday night, map applications for Google and Apple still called the mountain and the gulf by their old names.

UC Santa Barbara’s location provides a refuge from wildfires. The university protrudes into the ocean, which limits the ...

Major General Bruce Fernandez, Commandant, High Altitude Warfare School, says today’s wars are about operating in smaller ...

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Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the ...

As for Germany, Robert Kaplan writes in his illuminating book "The Revenge of Geography" it "faces both east and west with no mountain ranges to protect it, providing it with pathologies from ...

As the destruction continues with southern California’s wildfires that could be the costliest in U.S. history, one West ...

Topography matters, too — treeless mountain peaks are typically windier without those trees, or buildings, to slow the winds.

The blazes are the result of a combination of suburban sprawl in fire-prone areas, fierce Santa Ana winds, dry conditions ...

Everyone knows California is disaster-prone. But wildfires are supposed to be in the hills, not on the beach, and certainly ...

When I hear about fires, it is from friends in New York, who, ignorant of the geography of Los Angeles, ask if I am okay, at ...