Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

A rare geological process is tearing the Indian Plate apart deep beneath the surface, scientists have discovered. In a study ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

For decades, scientists debated whether the Indian Plate was simply underplating — slipping beneath Tibet’s crust — or ...

Amid dramatic volcanoes, steaming lava fields and glacial lagoons, a new self-drive route invites travellers to embrace ...

These points of no return are specific moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain effects become irreversible.