Ari Mehta could recite all 50 state capitals by age 3, and his grasp of geography spanned the globe by the time he was 7, having learned the name and location of every country and capital in the world ...

The United States is home to a wide variety of state nicknames, each one reflecting a unique aspect of a state's history, culture, or geography. Yet, few are as iconic and universally recognized as ...

A daylong competition that tested the skills of 100 young Arizona geography whizzes came down to a tiebreaker between two boys - one from Scottsdale, the other from Tucson's Wilson K-8. Cameron Danesh ...

PHOENIX — A 12-year-old from Phoenix sure hopes he knows his way around the world. If he does, he’ll be the winner of the National Geographic Bee that begins Monday in Washington. Ari Mehta, a ...

Tom Zoellner went for a walk. A long one, across Arizona, along the Arizona Trail — some 800 miles of varying terrain from the Utah state line to the border with Mexico (and then farther). He saw a ...

Interstate 40 is not an arbitrary boundary for Mexican wolf recovery, it is a generous extension northward and based on the best historical, ecological, and genetic scientific information available.