The geological history of Earth makes a new continent seem insignificant. Pangea, the enormous landmass that gave rise to all of the continents, broke apart into the continents that exist today. We ...

The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we know today. These continents aren’t going to stay in place forever ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

A University of Bristol simulation predicts the formation of supercontinent Pangaea Ultima within 250 million years, making ...

Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.