A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

Idyllic at the forest’s edge or urban in the middle of the city–in an old apartment or a prefab building: Your home likely feels very “stable.” You go to bed tonight and don’t suddenly wake up in a ...

They’ve built a new online tool, Paleolatitude.org 3.0, that lets anyone click a place on Earth and see what latitude it ...

Seamounts can also be formed by hotspots, where magma rises through a hole in the middle of a tectonic plate and forms chains ...

From the slow creep of continents to the violent birth of mountains, plate tectonics has been sculpting Earth for billions of years. New research reveals that these processes may have started far ...

Latitude shapes climate in a basic but powerful way. It controls the angle of sunlight, which helps decide whether a place ...

An online tool lets you trace where any latitude location on Earth was 320 million years ago, revealing how continents drift ...

Ancient tectonic plates continue to reshape the Earth's interior and reveal a deep connection to its global dynamics ...

Millions of years ago, the land you’re currently sitting on was located at a completely different latitude. Your backyard ...

Scientists have mapped how Earth’s deepest mantle is being deformed—and the results point to long-lost tectonic plates buried thousands of kilometers underground. Using a massive global dataset of ...

The arid hills of Western Australia’s Pilbara region contain the earliest evidence yet of tectonic plates sliding across Earth’s surface. Tiny magnetic crystals locked in the bedrock recorded the ...

Ancient rock crystals from Australia suggest that early Earth might not have been as different as scientists had thought from the planet that exists today. Earth’s earliest history is shrouded in ...