From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large ...

Volcanoes are among nature’s most powerful forces — breathtaking yet potentially catastrophic. According to a visual produced ...

This geographical phenomenon, known as the Eastern African Rift (EARS), is believed to have initiated around 22 million years ...

Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

The Southern Ocean is normally a layer cake. A thin cap of cold, relatively fresh water floats over saltier, warmer layers, and that slight density difference keeps the column from churning. A ...

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland ... Geoscientists modeled a chain of events that demonstrate how sea level rise impacts plate tectonics, they ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may ...

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line ... thaw may have also had unexpected consequences—including for plate tectonics, or the internal clockwork that has, for billions of ...

The scientists discovered that this global thaw may have also had unexpected consequences—including for plate tectonics, or the internal ... At the same time, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge ...