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The Earth is Just Like its Climate by City Tech blogger Armin Salazar

I read the article “In the Indian Ocean, Fragments of a Continent Where There Should Not Be”. It’s surprising but not unexpected that we are still learning about the Earth every day.

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The island of Mauritius, where scientists recently found fragments of a broken-up supercontinent. BENEDICTE KURZEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

As the article talks about, the recent discovery of a new continental fragment off the coast of Madagascar reminds us that the Earth is just like its climate. It is a process that has been happening over millions of years, and one that we are now just beginning to understand.

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