Climate models confirm that the continental interior of Pangaea was extremely seasonal, according to a 2016 article in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. The ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Over the past 2 billion years, Earth's continents have collided together ...

El Niño is a natural climate pattern where surface sea water temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean ...

It wasn't until 1912 that meteorologist Alfred Wegener hypothesized that Earth's continents had once been joined as a ...

According to the study, led by Dennis Kent of the Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty ... a volcanic region that emerged ...

During this period, Earth's climate changed from hot and dry to humid ... At the start of the period, the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea continued and accelerated. Laurasia, the northern ...

Something—a bout of violent volcanic eruptions, climate change ... all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled the Equator ...

In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know today were once all attached in a single landmass he called Pangaea (Greek for ... and evidence of ancient climate patterns. But Wegener could ...