The break up of the supercontinent Nuna transformed the Earth’s surface, creating shallow marine habitats that may have given ...

Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its fossil-rich basin has helped scientists piece together the story of human evolution.

A deep fracture in Earth's mantle is taking shape as the Indian and Eurasian plates collide and trigger a process called ...

Scientists have long been observing how something, silently, beneath the ocean, is breaking apart. For the first time in ...

Researchers have uncovered how climate-driven changes in lake levels influence fault activity and magma production in East Africa's Rift Valley. The research reveals a dynamic and interconnected ...

Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on ...

All complex life on Earth may be the result of plate tectonics tearing apart the ancient supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion ...

Research reveals continents "peel" from below, feeding enriched material into the oceanic mantle, explaining why ocean ...

Many oceanic islands far from active plate tectonic boundaries contain materials that clearly originate from continents, even though they are located ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton and the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, together with colleagues, have ...

The Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean between Australia and Sri Lanka. They are one of the places the study relates to Earth ...

This past spring, Swanson passed the milestone of having 50,000 students take the class from him over the years. It’s a number larger than the population of the British Columbia town he grew up in. He ...