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New research shows that North America is slowly sinking into the earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

The anniversary of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War precedes a slew of planned celebrations when the United States marks ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.