Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

Sea-Floor Spreading. Geophysical phenomena ranging from earthquakes to continental drift are being explained by a new theory that gives promise of eventually relating geomagnetism and the earth's ...

The Afar region is a rare place on Earth where three tectonic rifts meet - the Main Ethiopian Rift, the Red Sea Rift, and the ...

A series of groundbreaking discoveries are reshaping the way scientists understand Earth’s deep history, hinting at secrets ...

From poisoned workers to vanishing wetlands, the truth about BP’s toxic legacy in Louisiana is worse than you remember.

Open a middle‑school Earth‑science book and you’ll see a tidy story: the North Atlantic split apart, Greenland sailed west ...

Deep beneath Earth’s surface, hot mantle rock slowly rises, fueling massive volcanic activity, tearing continents apart, and ...

A multinational team of scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus will set sail Monday for a 22-day mission to explore the volcanically active seafloor in the Marianas, where they aim ...

The theory encompasses the older concepts of continental drift, developed during the first decades of the 20th century by Alfred Wegener, and seafloor spreading, understood during the 1960s.

Disinformation spreading on social media platforms has stoked an already tense situation. By Steven Lee Myers Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests ...

The ongoing Illuminate invasion is devastating the Galactic Map with Super Earth now ravaged by the monstrous squids. In more bad news, a new Helldivers 2 stratagem input glitch is stopping the ...