The roar of the crowd, the electrifying energy, the global spectacle – the FIFA World Cup is coming, and for the first time ...

How many continents are there, seven, six, or even fewer? The answer depends on who you ask. In this video, we explore the surprising debate over the number of continents on Earth, revealing how ...

Since 1931, a stone monument in Rugby, North Dakota – population: about 2,700 – marks the area that some say is the Geographical Center of our North American Continent.

The continent of North America is not a single, thick, rigid slab, but is instead more similar to a layer cake, with a section of 3-billion-year-old rock sitting atop much newer material, a new ...

The North American continent is not one thick, rigid slab, but a layer cake of ancient, 3-billion-year-old rock on top of much newer material probably less than 1 billion years old, according to a ...

This process ran through the entire North American continent and facilitated a massive scar on the continent's surface, which to date remains. This 2,000 km scar on the U.S. Midwest is labelled ...

Humans are the only primates currently living in the wild in North America, but that was not always the case.The continent was once home to non-human primates, including big-eyed tarsier-like ...

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 ...

How the cradle of our continent’s bird life is being rocked When last September’s chilling news from Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology hit press wires reporting a decline of ...

Every continent except for Antarctica experiences seasonal rainfall events known as monsoons. Among the six yearly global monsoons, one of them is a bit of a problem child—North America’s.