Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Sunday’s earthquake was the strongest to hit Kenya’s coastal region in over 30 years, with the last quake of similar or ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.” ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the planet’s magma creates continents – and may have even helped create life. In ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

A recent study challenges the long-held belief of the Indian plate smoothly sliding under the Eurasian plate. Seismic data reveals the Indian plate is ...

The tropics, where biodiversity and interactions among species abound, provide an alternative view of relationships between ...

The intersection of religion and science is visible at the observatory. A plaque of St. Emidius, whose name is traditionally ...

This movement was thought to be slowly lifting ... “With a clearer three-dimensional image of how tectonic plates interact, scientists can better comprehend the Earth's surface evolution and ...

Boru Tedecho (36), a village leader from Mugasa, remembers a tremor when he was a child but nothing on the scale of the ...