A controversial new study suggests our geography textbooks should be rewritten. Since we were young, we’ve learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America ...

Latin America: Continent in Crisis Reviewed by Robert Gale Woolbert January 1949 Published on January 1, 1949 . Share & Download . Print Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in. Save Sign in and ...

Dr Jordan Phethean, an author of the study, said: 'The discovery indicates that the North America and Eurasian tectonic plates have not yet actually broken apart, as is traditionally thought to ...

What makes a continent? Continents are difficult to define because the Earth is often changing. Originally, about 300-200 million years ago, Earth contained one landmass known as Pangea, a ...

Some regions in South America are experiencing many more days with extreme fire conditions, putting some of the continent's most important ecosystems -- such as the Amazon rainforest and the Gran ...

SAO PAULO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below.. This is the conclusion of researchers ...