Imagine Earth with an even 50/50 split between continents and oceans. Our planet covered half by land half by water. How would this change the planet as you know it? What new kinds of vacations could ...

A new study led by University of Wisconsin Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and Michigan Tech geologist Chad Deering advances the understanding of the role that continents have played in the chemical ...

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Earth is the only planet known to possess continents. In a new study published August 23 in the journal Geology, researchers suggest unexpected seeds for the formation of the first continents on our ...

A new study reveals how fragments of continental roots are stripped and transported beneath the oceans, solving a ...

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“The first time I went to Cuba, I was eight years old. As I approached customs, I remember witnessing a desperate and endless embrace – with deep sobs and tears – between a father and his daughter who ...