Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and they still are. Our new study reveals fresh evidence of rhythmic pulses of ...

Volcanoes across the country are beginning to wake up and erupt, and no one has a good explanation for why it's happening.

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A false-color satellite photo from 2023 shows a devilish pair of lava flows and an enormous plume of smoke spewing from ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years - and they still are. Our new ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

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New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...

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Have you heard or read about the Axial Seamount? The Axial is an underwater volcano located approximately 480 kilometers (300 mil ...