The planet won’t look like this forever. A future supercontinent could unleash brutal cold, rising heat, and even a wave of ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...

Off the rugged north coast of California, one of the most seismically volatile corners of the United States is yielding a new and unsettling secret. By tracking swarms of earthquakes far too small for ...

Seismologists Discover Hidden Faults Beneath One of the U.S.'s Biggest Earthquake Hotspots ...

Long dismissed as a geological mystery, this underwater giant is now changing everything scientists thought they knew about ...

Scientists are closely monitoring the Pacific Plate after new data revealed a massive crack forming along one of the most important tectonic structures on Earth. The Pacific Plate controls some of the ...

Over the last few days, the Coachella Valley has experienced more than 20 earthquakes, causing concern among some residents.

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ice ages and warm climates, new research finds. Published in Communications ...

“This new insight not only reshapes our understanding of past climates but also helps refine future climate models,” Dr. Mather said. By pairing global plate tectonic reconstructions with carbon-cycle ...

ARC Early Career Industry Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne Ben Mather receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adriana Dutkiewicz ...

Spain and Portugal are taking a turn. The Iberian Peninsula sits on a boundary between two large tectonic plates that are being stressed by a variety of forces, and because of this, the peninsula is ...