Eastern Africa is undergoing a dramatic geological transformation, scientists reveal. A 'geological heartbeat' of molten rock pulses beneath Ethiopia's Afar region, weakening the crust. This process, ...

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Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes ...

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From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Scenes of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake in a painting by João Glama Ströberle. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons An international study reveals for the first time a geological process never ...

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...