New study reveals that the Earth's mantle was not as hot when Pangaea began to break apart millions of years ago.

Last week, Southwest Colorado saw enough snow to cancel school and snarl travel. A week later, winter appears to have vaporized – replaced by clear skies, dry roads and temperatures warm enough for ...

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.

Was Atlantis just a metaphor… or a memory of real geological catastrophe? Geological data, mid-ocean ridge studies, and submerged plateaus near the Azores have reopened the debate. While mainstream ...

Remarkably, the shorelines of Africa and South America reflect each other almost perfectly, an extraordinary discovery that ...

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from ...

Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral ...

Iran held annual military drills with Russia as a second American aircraft carrier drew closer to the Middle East, with the ...

We explore the element redistribution at mid-ocean ridges (MOR) using a numerical model to evaluate the role of decompression melting of the mantle in Earth's geochemical cycle, with focus on the ...