In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports ...

The researchers studied the East Pilbara Craton formation in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, seen here. - Roger Norman/Alamy Stock Photo The puzzle pieces of Earth’s rocky crust are slowly and ...

A lot of research goes into determining how to best predict the next eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Part of this ...

Like his father, Stephen Bronfman has long been active in Liberal Party of Canada politics. He recently launched the Jewish ...

A piece of Earth that scientists thought had vanished hundreds of millions of years ago has quietly turned up under the coast of Northern California. The long-lost Pioneer fragment, once part of the ...

New magnetic evidence from volcanic rocks reveals that the collision of the Americas began far earlier than previously ...

A new study has found that most rare earth deposits – sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy ...

Now, a new paper suggests that the Farallon plate is still making its presence felt far from the coasts, powering one of ...

A new look at the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate beneath the coast of northern Oregon suggests this subducting slab is shallower ...

A new study suggests Yellowstone is not powered by a deep vertical plume, as long believed, but by a broad, slow-moving flow ...

Roughly 18 small earthquakes were recorded off the coast of Washington early Sunday, geologists reported. The first and ...

The extent of human-made climate change may make it tricky for us to notice its reversal at first, explain our readers ...