Learn how subduction zones form, drive massive earthquakes, create volcanoes, and shape Earth’s surface through powerful ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and ...

A global treaty has extended trade protections to more than 70 shark and ray species whose numbers are in sharp decline.

While neither the Ohio Revised Code nor any Columbus ordinances forbid driving with snow on top of your car or your trunk, it ...

Yes, Hurricane Melissa affected seismic activity, but it did not cause a crack in the seafloor that will lead to a major ...

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time.

Headed into winter, and looking forward to 2026, La Plata County ranchers have a lot on their minds. What type of grass to ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Seafloor lava rubble stores far more carbon than solid rock, revealing a long-overlooked carbon sink shaping Earth’s climate over time.

Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures ...