Mount Vesuvius may be Europe's most famous volcano, but lurking nearby is an ancient supervolcano, a ticking timebomb that ...

Research suggests that an ancient shoreline helped to sculpt the drop between Mars' southern and northern hemispheres.

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all have shuffled off our mortal coils by then, the effects Professor Macdonald ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

An increase in seismic activity has prompted predictions that a mile-wide submarine volcano named the Axial Seamount will ...

An island emerges from the waters, then vanishes, as if it never existed. In the Caspian Sea, this phenomenon has been ...

The rocks at the surface of the modern Earth are broadly divided into two types: felsic and mafic. Felsic rocks are generally relatively low density — for a rock —... Scientists are among the ...

Massive hidden structures in Earth's mantle, called LLSVPs, shape tectonic activity, drive volcanoes, and reveal ancient ...

Jan. 22, 2025 — Scientists can now identify the most harmful pollutants present in UK waters that are having the biggest impact on biodiversity thanks to pioneering AI ...