The horseshoe-shaped Midcontinent Rift is a 2,000-kilometer scar that is also called North America's 'broken heart' by ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with trying to smuggle strains of a fungus called Fusarium graminearum into the U.S.

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 ...

Therefore, the paper’s authors argued, North America and Europe could be seen as a single continent rather than two separate ones. Iceland was the focus of the study since the volcanic island is ...

Shaded relief map of western North America, with the Basin and Range Province labeled. (Credit: USGS ... including the lowest spot in the continent, Badwater Basin in Death Valley. The faults, which ...

With this definition in mind, one study recently published in the journal Gondwana Research argued — controversially — that North America and Europe are actually one continent, which makes six ...

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 conclusion of researchers ...

Yet for the 16th, 17th and most of the 18th centuries, Native Americans had outnumbered Europeans in North America. By 1776, British settlers had taken the Atlantic coast and were pouring over the ...

Hidden within North America is a long-forgotten continent once ruled by a bizarre cast of dinosaurs – but only a handful of fossils have ever been found. It was a typically warm, humid day in ...

Nonnative earthworms have colonized much of the North American continent, posing a threat to native ecosystems, a recent analysis reveals. Writing in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution ...

Researchers from the University of Derby say that the break-up of the European and North American continents is ... fragments of lost continent submerged beneath the sea and kilometres of thin ...