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

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

The map is a fascinating representation of the protection geography and meteorology gives the millions of people who live in ...

In the Triassic era, North America was part of Pangea, a supercontinent whose massive scale sparked extreme monsoons that ...

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

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...

Many people think Africa is a country but it’s a continent with 54 diverse nations. From Nigeria to Egypt to South Africa, ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for ...

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

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

Imagine the dramatic reshaping of the continents if North America suddenly vanished beneath the waves. Today it feels like ...