Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University. His new book is Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. He is also the author of The Comanche Empire, winner ...

Far beneath the South Pacific, a continent the size of India has finally stepped out of the cartographic shadows. After centuries of speculation and decades of targeted surveys, scientists have now ...

After centuries of speculation, scientists have officially confirmed the existence of Zealandia, an enormous submerged continent that was lost to history for nearly 400 years. Spanning an incredible 1 ...

There is lot fuzz about the discovery of a slab of granite embedded into basaltic rocks of the oceanic crust - granite is a rock typical of continental crust (including island arcs), which prompted ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are ...

Janika Oza's debut novel "A History of Burning" follows one family over 100 years and across three continents, exploring themes of erasure, colonialism, family and memory. (Book cover courtesy Grand ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s future as the climate warms.

Eric Tohver receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Western Australia. Modern-day Africa was the keystone of ...

The continents may have first risen high above the oceans of the world about 3 billion years ago, researchers say. That's about a billion years earlier than geoscientists had suspected for the ...