Unity across continents and oceans Former Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson’s address to the Africa-Caricom Day forum held September 7, 2023 at the Council Room — UWI Regional Headquarters .

Continents and oceans, we have them both. But it didn't have to be this way. And on most planets, it probably isn't. Next time you look at the stars, pick one and focus on it.

As the result of my letter on “Continents and Oceans”, which appeared in NATURE for Nov. 30, several correspondents have directed my attention to Lothian Green's ‘tetrahedral hypothesis’.

The continents may have first risen high above the oceans of the world about 3 billion years ago, researchers say. That's about a billion years earlier than geoscientists had suspected for the ...

Antarctica's melting ice shelves have unleashed 7.5 TRILLION tonnes of water into the oceans since 1997, study finds. Over 40 per cent of Antarctica's 162 ice sheets have shrunk since 1997; ...

This is an Inside Science story.. Earth's first continents may have emerged from the oceans roughly 750 million years earlier than previously thought, rising from the seas in a manner completely ...