Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its ...

A strong earthquake struck the waters northeast of Tonga on March 22, 2026, registering at a shallow depth that placed it ...

Africa is slowly tearing apart, a process that could lead to a massive land collision creating mountains taller than the ...

There are two big challenges when it comes to tsunamis: first making sure people in the tsunami zone are notified and know ...

Long before Mount Everest became the roof of the world, the rocks that form its summit were lying at the bottom of a sea.

The rocks didn’t look like much from the outside. Scattered across a remote stretch of western Australia called North Pole ...

Scientists discovered Hawaii’s deep mantle plume is splitting, which may create two future volcanic island chains.

A March 12 slide on Whistler Peak reveals how tectonic uplift, retreating glaciers and long-term erosion continue to reshape ...

We broke down the Multnomah County budget in four charts: two showing how much the county collects and two showing how much ...

The earthquake off Sukabumi, West Java, was caused by the subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate.

Acid rain from the volcano on Ambae - 310km north west of the capital of Port Vila - is reportedly effecting water and food supplies. Authorities say the volcano is spewing toxic burning ash which is ...