Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures ...

A series of earthquakes struck off Indonesia within 24 hours between Friday and Saturday, highlighting the seismic risks that ...

A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...

Geologists report that the East African Rift is exhibiting signs of accelerated continental separation, with the African ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

A giant crack is tearing through Africa—and it’s not slowing down. Hidden beneath the surface, a dramatic geological shift is ...

Akasa Air, IndiGo, Air India and KLM are among the airlines that cancelled some flights due to the ash plumes on Tuesday.

We tend to think earthquakes are predominantly driven by deep-Earth forces. But in Kenya’s Lake Turkana Rift, researchers ...

While volcanoes play an important role in shaping landscapes and enriching soil, their destructive power far outweighs their ...

An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and ...