Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

Dr. Lucy Jones, renowned seismologist, joined ForbesWomen editor Maggie McGrath to talk about the causes and impact of the ...

A simulation on the origin and evolution of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has been conducted by a PKU research team ...

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Take a tour of the space volcanoes on other planets and moons across the Solar System, and find out how they differ from ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But some of these colossal structures have vanished into the depths of the ...

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

Researchers have discovered that the North American continent is slowly losing rock from its underside in a process called ...

An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.

A major earthquake in Myanmar on Friday has caused more than 1,600 deaths and led to the collapse of numerous structures.

A local geologist says the tectonic plate movement that caused last week's earthquake in Myanmar was also behind the 2004 ...