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 ...

Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

Eventually, it is understood that the Earth’s tectonic plates will come together against and form a new supercontinent, a process predicted to happen roughly 200 to 300 million years from now ...

Our work allows us to update maps of tectonic plates and the formation of continents that are found in classroom textbooks. These plate models which have been assembled from topographic models and ...

“Knowing where all the subducted oceanic crust has gone over the past 300 million years will allow us to play back the movie of plate tectonics in reverse,” says Steve Jacobsen of Northwestern ...

In some cases the space is so narrow, you can touch North America and Europe at once. ... Swim between two tectonic plates. 25 June 2014. Share Save. Talia Avakian. Features correspondent.

Europe could be moving beneath Africa as the two continents shift closer together, scientists believe. Geologists say a pause in the movement between the two continents could mean the tectonic ...

New map of Earth’s tectonic plates ‘could help predict natural disasters’ In new research, scientists have redrawn the boundaries of our planet’s architecture, Andy Gregory reports ...

EUROPE and Canada may one day smash into each other if dramatic new research is to be believed. Scientists say one of Earth’s tectonic plates, the massive shelves of crust that carry the cont… ...

13-year-old Charlotte Burns plans to dive between the Silfra fissure, the tectonic plates separating Europe and North America. Charlotte Burns, a 13-year-old schoolgirl from Kent in England, ...

Budget negotiations are the political nemesis of Western democracies. As President Barack Obama and Congress engage in preliminary skirmishes over the fiscal cliff, the Europe Union too has drawn ...