Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have discovered that the North American continent is slowly losing rock from its underside in a process called ...

Forget what you learnt in elementary school geography, Earth apparently doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we’re taught that the world is made up of Africa, Antarctica, Asia, ...

A controversial new study suggests our geography textbooks should be rewritten. Since we were young, we've learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America make ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the reason ...