The continents are drying so rapidly that they're now contributing more to rising sea levels than melting ice sheets do.

In “Evidence falls into place for once and future supercontinents“, contributing correspondent Alexandra Witze explores the long-term motions of the planet’s portable continents. Within this ...

Supercontinents — giant landmasses made up of multiple continents — could emerge again on Earth 200 million years from now, and where they form on the globe could drastically affect our planet ...