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

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

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

One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a ...

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 ...

Recent geopolitical action could impact industries that rely on cross-border supply chains.

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

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

For the seasonal mean spanning January-March 2025, global ocean sea-surface temperature (SST) anomalies were generally above ...

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

but their presence appears to be impacting the entire continent. The dripping area looks like a large funnel, with rocks from across North America being pulled toward it horizontally before ...