A new study shows that climate shapes the land and can change where earthquakes happen and when volcanoes erupt.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden geological process where fragments of continents are slowly stripped from below and swept ...

Deep beneath the world’s oceans, a slow-moving force is silently sculpting submarine volcanoes. This geological process, ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

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

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

Climate change does its damage in a lot of ways—birthing hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires. Now add to ...

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

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

Eight years ago, inside Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre, a group of actors and researchers gathered around a reproduction of a ...

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