Earth’s continents are currently keeping a safe distance from one another, but what if they did slam together again, ...

But this isn’t a worldwide consensus. The number of continents, it seems, depends on who you ask. The answer may have seemed clear in elementary school, but in truth, there is no single, definitive ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Rugby player turned explorer Richard Parks guided the Fresh Prince of Bel Air around the world's coldest continent.

It is the largest continent in the world both in terms of area and population. It comprises 48 nations and 60% of the world's population. Spanning over an area of 44,579,000 sq. km., the continent ...

New research presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union highlights the future of our continents – a future which suggests renewed unity, quite literally. Just as our continents ...

The first half-billion years of Earth science were gnarly. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When Earth was just a wee young thing, ...

Classical plate tectonic theory was developed in the 1960s. It proposed that the outer layer of our planet is made up of a small number of rigid plates separated by narrow boundaries. The surface of ...

Over the course of the next five years, De Bruyn Joubert is attempting to cycle coast to coast through all seven continents and 70 countries. The 29-year-old South African started last August, and ...

Red backed shrikes migrate using a fixed schedule, flying in stages with little variation, showing that genetics guide bird ...

Record-Breaking Dust Events Strike Multiple Continents in 2024 A severe storm swept across Mongolia in March 2023, affecting ...