Tremors beneath Northern California show hidden plate movement, helping scientists better understand where future big ...

New research highlights the complex relationship between Earth's tectonic plate movements and climate shifts. Contrary to ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet some of these giant structures vanished deep into the mantle, hidden from ...

Tectonic plates, the giant slabs of rock that make up the Earth’s crust, are always moving. This movement can raise mountains ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods and warm "greenhouse" states.