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

The map is a fascinating representation of the protection geography and meteorology gives the millions of people who live in ...

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

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

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

Nova Scotia’s cultural landscape is as diverse as its coastline, shaped by Mi'kmaq, French Acadian and African Nova Scotian communities. These coastal destinations, set along wave-worn cliffs and in ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...