Most ozone-depleting substances also contribute to global warming. By reining in these substances and protecting carbon sinks ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.

Using nearly four decades of seismic data from stations encompassing the northern, central, and southern Sierra Nevada along California's eastern border, geologists have uncovered signs of a critical ...

Study Suggests the Atlantic Ocean Is Expanding by a Couple of Inches Every Year Due to a Massive Upwelling The Atlantic Ocean ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

The vast mountains are believed to be at least a billion years old, but they could date back as far as four billion years to ...

A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...

MOUNT Everest has long been considered the tallest mountain on Earth, but new research reveals it might not even come close.

The LLSVPs are found in what scientists refer to as "slab graveyards," where tectonic plates sink through a process called ...

These mountains, known as "Large Low Seismic Velocity Provinces" or LLSVPs, sit on the boundary between Earth's core and ...