For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

Africa is currently undergoing processes that could lead to the separation of the Somali Peninsula from the rest of the ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

Earth scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Maryland and others finally connected the dots ...

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep ...

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 ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

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

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

Indian tectonic plate is splitting beneath the Himalayas, revealing a dramatic twist in Earth's tectonic history, scientists ...