Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of ...

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

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

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

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

Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways. Rivers cut through ...

Netflix’s shocking $72 billion bid to buy Warner Bros. and HBO is the rare corporate mega-merger that can shift the tectonic plates of an entire industry and permanently change the way all of its ...

Map of significant earthquakes (greater than magnitude 4) in the UK Credit: British Geological Survey/UKRI News of a ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

Forget singing bowls. This proper scholar’s rock is a meditation aid for a master. Collected along Japan’s Nakasendo River during the Edo period, it acts as a microcosmic reminder of vast mountain ...

While volcanoes play an important role in shaping landscapes and enriching soil, their destructive power far outweighs their scenic appeal when they awaken without warning.