In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

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

Geologists have uncovered a long-lost continental fragment buried beneath the thick ice of Greenland, a discovery that offers ...

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

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

Languages: English. 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 ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

Researchers have identified a section of ancient oceanic crust beneath the Midwest that is pulling present-day North American crust into the mantle. This process has created large geological “drips” ...

Beneath the stable crust of North America, scientists have discovered something extraordinary: the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in blobs of rock. This unusual geologic process ...

(Photo: Getty) In a remarkable geological finding, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is slowly dripping away in blobs ...

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 ...