Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

The human passion for gouging burnable stuff out of the earth and reducing it to ashes may well be the end of us. But it's not clear who the “us” is. Not you and me, obviously; we'll be lucky to see ...

A recent study published in Nature Geoscience uses supercomputer climate models to examine how a supercontinent, dubbed Pangea Ultima (also called Pangea Proxima), that will form 250 million years ...

Earth's continents may look permanent on a human timescale, but they are constantly moving. Driven by the slow movement of tectonic plates, today's familiar map is only a temporary arrangement in the ...

Explore the future of Earth in 250 million years, diving into plate tectonics and the formation of Pangaea Proxima. Discover how our planet's landscapes may change over vast time scales. We moved from ...

Pangaea was a massive supercontinent that formed between 320 million and 195 million years ago. At that time, Earth didn't have seven continents, but instead one giant one surrounded by a single ocean ...

Los continentes siguen desplazándose unos centímetros cada año y, si determinadas tendencias tectónicas continúan, dentro de ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Over the past 2 billion years, Earth's continents have collided ...

En esta fecha, la Tierra dejará de ser tal y como la conocemos en la actualidad. Este será el nuevo mapa del mundo desde esta fecha.

The seasonal reversal of land-sea thermal contrast drives the monsoon system—the dominant seasonal mode of the global hydrological cycle that influences the livelihood of billions of people. But how ...

Pangea wasn’t the first, and it won’t be the last. Take a look ahead at the shape of the world to come. Unfathomable ages ago, the continents of the Earth were not in their current places. A single ...