February 2025

The pronouncements came during a meandering press conference held a day after the US Congress certified Trump’s election victory…Read More

Google has confirmed that Google Maps will soon rename the Gulf of Mexico and Denali mountain in Alaska as the “Gulf of America” and “Mount McKinley” in line with changes implemented by the Trump Administration, but users in the rest of the world may see two names for these locations…Read More

The new US president signalled the name change in his inaugural address last week…Read More

Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it could be a brief experiment anyway…Read More

MEXICO CITY, Mexico – Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum responded sharply on Wednesday to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” suggesting that the entire North American continent could instead be called “Mexican America.” At a news conference on Wednesday…Read More

Shell, and its partner, Chevron, have boosted their oil and gas arsenal in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico by starting production from a deepwater project more than seven years after the original hydrocarbon discovery. The post Shell and Chevron cheer first oil as Whale song enriches energy security courtship in US Gulf of Mexico appeared

Trump recently proposed the gulf name change, alongside the annexation of Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal.Read More

That’s where the U.S. gets most of its offshore oil…Read More

The Gulf of Mexico is often referred to as the United States’ “Third Coast” due to its coastline across five southeastern states. The post Trump says he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. Can he do that? appeared first on Boston.com…Read More

The Mexican president touted a new, old name for North America in a press conference on Wednesday…Read More