From the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 to the intervention in Venezuela, Washington has dominated the American continent by force ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered that the North American continent is slowly losing rock from its underside in a process called "cratonic dripping." This is caused by the remnants of the Farallon Plate, an ...

Ray Suarez talks with author Anthony DePalma about his new book "Here: A Biography of the New American Continent," about the North American neighbors of the United States. Well, there's no biography ...

Mechanism Schematic of North American teleconnection to Asian summer monsoon. North American continent creates a heating center in summer. This then creates atmospheric ripple effects, which ...

Around a billion years ago, a geological event occurred in North America that could have completely changed the continent as people know it. This event could have split the North American continent in ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified second ...