SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates - Tracking down the entirety of Thai artist Pratchaya Phinthong’s “We are lived by powers we ...

Mount Taranaki joins Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island, and the Whanganui River in being recognised as people under New Zealand's laws. A mountain in New Zealand is now legally ...

its Maori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before. The pristine, snow-capped ...

A mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal rights as a person, after a law recognising injustices done to the Maori people during colonisation was passed unopposed in parliament.

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

A 8,200ft mountain has now been recognised as a person in a bizarre move by New Zealand. The country's government recognised Mount Taranaki - now known by its Maori name, Taranaki Maunga - after ...

On Tuesday morning, Google searches for the Gulf of Mexico returned an official “Gulf of America” knowledge panel at the top, complete with a tile showing the updated name on Google Maps.

its Maori name – is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before. The pristine, snow-capped ...

Mount Taranaki – now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name – is considered an ancestral being by indigenous people. The pristine, snow-capped dormant volcano is the second highest on New ...

Although people accessing Google Maps from inside the U.S. will see the name Gulf of America, users in Mexico will continue to see the basin's earlier title. Maps users everywhere else in the ...

Google also updated its maps for users in the United States. People in Mexico will still see the name Gulf of Mexico, while those outside the two countries will see both names, Google said Monday ...

Sterling Quinn, Professor of Geography at Central Washington University, explains how digital map companies ... from people who don’t agree sometimes over the boundaries and place names, I ...