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

Imagine the dramatic reshaping of the continents if North America suddenly vanished beneath the waves. Today it feels like ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers from ...

The discovery was possible thanks to a wider project led by Hua to map what lies beneath North America using a ...

This Wikipedia map shows where the American white pelican is ... It’s wingspan can stretch 10 feet, the second-largest in North America to the California condor. The American white pelican can weigh ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for ...

Seven skips full of pods, thousands of sticky secateurs, years of Stamping and yet the moth plant is still rampant. What ...

The results were decidedly mixed. In part because of this unstandardized approach, early European maps of North America were often decidedly misinformed, or outright weird; large sections of land ...

Ed Link introduced the world's first ground-based flight trainer-an invention that would revolutionize pilot instruction.

Machias Seal Island is a tiny dot on maps of North America. But the uninhabited, fogbound rock is significant for its location in an area known as the "Grey Zone" – the site of a rare ...

Poland’s contribution to global human rights is both vast and often overlooked. From Tadeusz Kościuszko’s fight for the rights of slaves and serfs to Ludwik Rajchman’s founding of UNICEF, Polish ...

The Boxley Valley Historic District, just a short drive from town, offers some of the best elk viewing in the eastern United ...