As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

Researchers have discovered that the North American continent is slowly losing rock from its underside in a process called "cratonic dripping." This is caused by the remnants of the Farallon Plate ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock — and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in the Earth’s mantle may be the ...

Consider the dramatic geographical and potential climatic changes if the entire continent of South America suddenly vanished.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...