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 ...

New research shows that North America is slowly sinking into the earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

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

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

The discovery was possible thanks to a wider project led by Hua to map what lies beneath North America using a high-resolution seismic imaging technique called "full-waveform inversion." ...

(Representational) A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down ... thinning happening in real time. "A very broad range is ...

The two neighbours and long-time allies have each long laid claim to the island and surrounding water, where the US state of ...

Millions of birds are flying over Mississippi every night for the next few weeks. You can help them move safely. Here's what ...

Nonfiction: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian brilliantly reimagines the enduring conflict between the two Americas.