Growing up, most of us learned that Earth is home to seven continents. But it may be time to rewrite the geography textbooks, as a controversial study now claims there are actually only six ...

In the mid-eighteenth century, France controlled the largest part of the North American continent ... In the 14 colonies of British America, economies were booming and the population was doubling ...

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on North America, a continent found ... Give pupils an outline map of the continent and ask them to draw and write features inside that ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

List of States in USA: The United States of America is a country situated in the North American continent. It is the fourth largest country in the world as per the area covered. The United States ...

Russia wanted a permanent presence in North America, and hoped to ... between the Asian and North American continents, and his expedition produced maps that set the navigation standard for the ...

Spain and Portugal dominated the South American continent and parts of the Caribbean. They had also gotten a foothold in Central America and the southern portions of North America, in Florida and ...

Intense wildfires in Canada have sparked pollution alerts across swathes of North America as smoke is blown south along the continent's east coast. Toronto, Ottawa, New York and Washington DC are ...

Graham Duggan Most archeologists agree that human beings reached North America 14,000 ... the entire planet. The American cave lion (Panthera atrox) called this continent home and was one of ...

caballus, were brought back to North America, first in the Virgin Islands, and, in 1519, they were reintroduced on the continent, in modern-day Mexico, from where they radiated throughout the American ...

With glacier-clad peaks rising almost vertically from thickly forested valleys, the North Cascades are often called the American Alps. The national park forms one unit of the North Cascades ...