Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...

Beneath the Afar region's vast landscape in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered a powerful geological force that is reshaping the continent. A 35-mile-crack known as the Dabbahu fissure was ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate has been brought back into view. In one of Earth's most tectonically ...

Their findings, recently published in Science Advances, suggest that early continental crust likely formed through deep Earth processes called mantle plumes, rather than the plate tectonics that ...

UN Climate Change News, 25 June 2025 – UN Climate Change and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) have signed a three-year partnership to strengthen climate action and ...

Researchers have discovered an unusual plume of magma beneath Oman that may have changed the course of the Indian tectonic plate between 25 million and 40 million years ago.