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Greenland's relatively isolated indigenous culture finds itself increasingly exposed to the world just as Trump pushes to ...
Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...
Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...
A tectonic clash in Tibet formed giant copper deposits, revealing how recycled crust can power clean energy and reshape ...
Recent research conducted by an international team of scientists from Utrecht University, the UK, and the US has resulted in ...
Throughout Earth’s history, the continents have been constantly on the move, converging and diverging in cycles that have shaped the planet’s surface for billions of years. This process, known as ...
A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...
Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...
A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...
New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...
Delhi-NCR was jolted by a 4.4-magnitude earthquake on Thursday morning, with the epicentre located in Haryana’s Jhajjar ...
Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...