Africa is three times bigger than North America, for example, but appears smaller on the map. On the Mercator map, Greenland looks massive compared with Africa, which is actually 14 times bigger ...

A map shows the ozone hole above Antarctica in September, when it was the size of North America. The ozone protects the Earth from the sun's ultraviolet rays.

To create the map, the researchers amassed over 2,000 stress orientations taken across North America, of which 300 are brand new. These measurements were taken from boreholes—long, narrow shafts ...

Explore billions of years of North American history to see how our amazing continent came to take the shape it is today. Trek to Gooseberry Falls to search for evidence of the continent's violent ...

Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery New technical analysis dates Yale’s Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested.

In the long term, the map could inspire and inform modeling efforts aimed at better understanding North America's geologic past, as well as the continent's present day tectonic intricacies.