Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Earth's atmosphere is divided into several distinct layers, each characterized by specific temperature variations, composition, and phenomena. Below are the primary layers of the atmosphere, from the ...

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

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

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

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

Lake sediment cores in Guatemala reveal directional ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake, offering rare insight into ...

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.