Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Leka, a 500-million-year-old geological wonder in Trøndelag, offers a unique travel experience. Explore the island's dramatic ...

In 2021, researchers working in New Mexico published a paper that contributed to what remains one of the most controversial ...

The Kodiak History Museum and KANA are partnering on a new exhibit highlighting cooperation between scientists and Aleutian ...

At that meeting, it moved a step closer to final action on the controversial bycatch issue by laying out a complex set of potential options, ranging from taking no action to implementing a hard cap on ...

All the latest science news on geology from Phys.org. Find the latest news, advancements, and breakthroughs. Topics. ... But these cliffs hold a history of past climate and sea levels that is ...

New research establishes the first known link between the neurotoxin saxitoxin, accumulated during harmful algal blooms, and deaths of northern fur seals in the southeast Bering Sea.

The 2016 award, the outcome of a legal case filed by the Philippines in 2013, upheld most of Manila’s claims, ruling that China’s expansive claims to most of the South China Sea had no ...

Many low-lying islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans are falling victim to rising sea levels. The islands are only between 3 and 15 feet above sea level. "When the island completely subsides ...