New research shows that North America is slowly sinking into the earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

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

Iceland is being tugged by growing antagonism between the Trump administration and Europe—and is watching nearby Greenland ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

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

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...