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

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...

In 5 to 10 million years, this will create a new ocean and reshape the geography and trade routes of Eastern Africa, ...

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

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...