Over the past two centuries, the construction of thousands of dams has done more than just tame rivers – it has shifted the ...

In a new revelation that has sparked concern among environmentalists and researchers, satellite data from NASA’s GRACE ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process providing new information about how continents and landmasses evolve.

As the climate warms, new data shows huge swaths of land across the globe are quickly drying, threatening humanity’s supply ...

A new study details how the North American plate is “dripping” into the mantle due to the continued influence of the Farallon Plate, which has been subducting under the continent for 200 ...

Environment North America’s underside is slowly melting into the Earth Cratonic thinning may be eating away the continent’s deepest layers. Andrew Paul Apr 22, 2025 2:04 PM EDT ...

The oldest parts of Earth's continents are called cratons, and underneath, they are rooted to the mantle of the planet. Scientists have now discovered that the roots below the North American continent ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

A 230 million-year-old, never-before-seen raptor unearthed in the U.S. is the oldest dinosaur ever discovered in North America — and one of the earliest to ever emerge on our planet.

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say.

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent; its ancient bedrock is slowly dripping into the Earth’s ...