Africa gradually pulled apart along the East African rift, a slow tectonic shift that could have formed a new ocean and ...

The White House, led by Donald Trump, has ramped up efforts to pressure Denmark into seceding Greenland to the US.

Tectonic plates, the giant slabs of rock that make up the Earth’s crust, are always moving. This movement can raise mountains ...

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

A groundbreaking study has unveiled Antarctica's hidden, rugged topography beneath its ice sheet, revealing mountains, ...

As President Trump tries to coerce European leaders over Greenland and seems ready to break the transatlantic alliance, the crisis should serve as a catalyst for deeper and smarter Europeanization of ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

A massive geological rift is tearing one of Earth’s largest continents in two, faster than scientists once believed.

Researchers have identified an ancient tectonic fragment, the Pioneer fragment, buried under the coast, which may exacerbate earthquake hazards associated with the San Andreas and Cascadia faults.

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...