Earthquakes can be damaging enough, but sometimes what follows can be worse. Dan Smith takes us through one of Earth's most ...

The efforts of ODPEM and the Earthquake Unit are a strong foundation on which to build. They reinforce the message that ...

Warnings that humanity is heading toward its own disappearance have shifted from the fringes of science fiction into mainstream research and public debate. Instead of vague prophecies, scientists now ...

STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is more than a school subject. It is a vital tool for development, innovation, and opportunity in modern life. Yet, across Europe, many ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, an area that could give rise ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds. This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously ...