Discover which North American country is the richest based on GNI per capita and what drives its economic power. Explore the ...

A collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters about some of North America's most significant places and landmarks.

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below.

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 ...

Since we were young, we've learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America make up the seven continents, but a study published in the journal Gondwana ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - North America is the world’s third-largest continent, covering an area of 9,355,000 square miles, most of which lies between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer. In the ...

The history of the settlement of the New World focuses on the big dogs: Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal. But a handful of smaller countries tried to get in on the deal, too, before getting ...

The defense of the Arctic and the North American continent are national security priorities for both the United States and Canada.

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent; its ancient bedrock is slowly dripping into the Earth’s ...

Researchers from the University of Derby say that the break-up of the European and North American continents is still ongoing.

As you read this, the North American continent ’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, this may be the ...

How many continents are there? The seven continents are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America — but some experts argue that there could be less.