New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

Rare earth elements’ (REEs) are not actually rare in the Earth’s crust, but their extraction and processing are challenging.

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...

We are going back 55 million years. That was when Greenland and Norway began to drift apart, causing the Atlantic Ocean to ...

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 ...

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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have uncovered how to manipulate electrical flow through crystalline ...

The effects of climate change could awaken hundreds of volcanoes worldwide – which in turn could worsen the effects of ...

The concept isn’t hypothetical. Tephra layers in Icelandic peat cores show that eruptions soared six-fold between 12,000 and ...

A tectonic clash in Tibet formed giant copper deposits, revealing how recycled crust can power clean energy and reshape ...

Wu Fuyuan, an academician of the CAS and a corresponding author of the study, said the moon displays an asymmetry between its ...