A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to ...

A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the United States could be linked to Greenland ...

Roughly 124 miles (200 kilometers) beneath the Appalachian Mountains in New England lies the aptly named Northern Appalachian ...

Ocean currents swirl around North America (center left) and Greenland (upper right) in this data visualization created using NASA's ECCO ...

Greenland may feel like an icy curiosity to most Americans, but who controls it could reshape Arctic shipping, missile ...

Its location way out in a forbidding ocean, between North America, Western Europe and Russia, made Greenland strategically important even during the two world wars and the subsequent Cold War ...

Greenland also offers a trove of rare earth minerals, of which the U.S. was a top producer until China took over. The island is estimated to have the eighth-largest reserve of rare earths.

Since we were young, we've learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America make up the seven continents, but a study published in the journal Gondwana ...

North America won't experience totality again until 2033, with Alaska getting sole dibs. The next one won't be until 2044, when totality will be confined to Western Canada, Montana and North Dakota.

Its resurfacing is an apt metaphor for Donald Trump’s proposal to expand US territory into the circumpolar North, which seems to have come out of nowhere, but in fact draws upon a long history.

A 2010 paper published in the journal American Antiquity estimated the Indigenous population of eastern North America around 1500 to be somewhere between 500,000 and 2.6 million people.