Africa is the most diverse continent on Earth — home to over a billion people, thousands of languages, and landscapes that ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

For billions of years, Earth's continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems ...

Extreme heat deep in Earth’s crust forged the strong, stable continents that have endured for billions of years.

That recognition can be through landmarks, event support or even permanent signage. Three years ago, Los Angeles' Historic ...

Leadership has always played a pivotal role in shaping the course of history. From emperors who redefined empires to ...

Moroccan rocks reveal that Earth’s magnetic field once changed fast but followed a hidden order, helping scientists map ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

A long-lost landmass, mostly hidden beneath the waves of the South Pacific Ocean, has taken a major step toward full ...

The sixth Africa Resilience Forum hosted by the African Development Bank opened its doors on Tuesday in Abidjan with a call for international financial institutions (IFIs) to scale up peace finance in ...

The continents are in constant motion: Tectonic plates crash together and break apart, creating new crust while old crust is pulled below the surface. The process shrinks and widens oceans, uplifts ...

In the early 1400s, the legacy of the great Mali Empire was still strong. Mali had reached its zenith under Mansa Musa (r. ca. 1312–1337), whose fabled pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 revealed the ...