Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

A fascinating new study reveals how two of Earth’s established continents may constitute one whole landmass in itself.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

After the eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, the alert level was raised to the highest, with warnings of possible lava ...

The project, led by the Corner Brook man, has been trying to earn western Newfoundland’s geological significance the nod of ...

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

In a spectacular breakthrough that bridges centuries of geological research, a 20-million-year-old fossilised palm leaf has ...

Open a middle‑school Earth‑science book and you’ll see a tidy story: the North Atlantic split apart, Greenland sailed west ...

China dominates the global rare earths industry—and it’s not even close. A fight is already underway to lay claim to this ...