North wasn’t always “up” on world maps. North doesn't always mean "up" when it comes to geophysics. Scientists have known for ...

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Most everyone who has visited Florida or California has seen brown pelicans, and who isn’t delighted by the spectacle of such ...

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The British wanted to preserve the northern part of the continent for the fur trade ... adding that "it all makes perfect sense" on a map of North American river systems. It didn't necessarily ...

If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right ... deep history and that it is an important part of everyday life on the North American continent.” “It’s a real thing,” says ...

Courtesy John Nelson, Esri Another commonly misplaced continent is Africa. North Americans tend ... be similar in size to all of South America on Mercator maps, when in fact South America is ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling ... different geological features at different speeds. This map shows seismic speed in the Earth’s crust at 200 ...

The affected part of the North American continent is an example of a "craton ... compounds that are weakening the base of the crust. A map of the North American craton—outlined in black ...

He is urging Canada to become the 51st U.S. state, while seeking to acquire Greenland (under Danish sovereignty but geographically on the side of the North American continent, as maps of the ...

Google Maps has changed the name of the Gulf ... Ms Sheinbaum also previously joked that she was considering renaming the continent of North America "Mexican America" in her country.