Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...

With less water in the lakes, especially Lake Turkana, it has become easier for the great rift beneath to move.

New research suggests Hawaii’s volcanoes are fueled by a deep mantle plume that splits, drawing from different Earths.

As East Africa’s great lakes shrink after thousands of years, scientists find the land beneath may be pulling apart faster, revealing an unexpected link between ancient climate shifts and modern ...

In the 19th century, Alfred Russel Wallace (famous for coming up with his own theory of evolution by natural selection, independent of Charles Darwin) was wandering through the Malay Archipelago with ...

The Indian Ocean holds the lowest gravity anomaly on Earth, a vast and subtle depression in the planet’s gravitational field located south of Sri Lank.

New research highlights the complex relationship between Earth's tectonic plate movements and climate shifts. Contrary to prior belief, mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts significant influence ...

“This new insight not only reshapes our understanding of past climates but also helps refine future climate models,” Dr. Mather said. By pairing global plate tectonic reconstructions with carbon-cycle ...

An earthquake-generating chunk of tectonic plate has been discovered beneath Northern California. It’s attached to the bottom of the North American plate like gum stuck to a shoe. Using abundant, tiny ...

Spain and Portugal are taking a turn. The Iberian Peninsula sits on a boundary between two large tectonic plates that are being stressed by a variety of forces, and because of this, the peninsula is ...

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...