A research team found evidence that a plume of hot mantle and tectonic plates generate activity deep beneath the Afar region in Ethiopia, which will one day tear apart the African continent and create ...

G eologists have attributed age-dependent variations in the chemistry of Ethiopian volcanic rocks to rhythmic pulses like a ...

At the Afar triple junction under Ethiopia, where three tectonic plates meet, molten magma pounds the planet's crust from ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

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RPI researchers were the first to ever collect data during an underwater eruption on the Mid Ocean Ridge System. They happened to be on site to gather data from hydrothermal vents.

Before Westeros was laced with greedy Lannisters, silver-haired Targaryens, and the honorable Starks, before there ever was Game of Thrones, there was Valyria.

D Magazine’s pro globetrotters explored a secluded Fijan island, enjoyed butler service in London, and hauled a corpse off of ...

Axial Seamount, a highly active underwater volcano off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, is heading toward eruption for the first time in a decade, providing scientists with a rare window into ...

The Feb. 16 letter, “ Stop kicking climate change down the road,” stated, “Volcanoes on land and under the sea release about 200 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.”That was as of 2007.

Mount Spurr in Alaska – rising some 3,370 meters or 11,070 feet above sea level – could be about to erupt, with the number of small and recent earthquakes in the area now into the thousands. Volcano ...