A new study shows that climate shapes the land and can change where earthquakes happen and when volcanoes erupt.

What causes lava to gush from volcanoes in plumes of liquid fire or the ground to shake like the world is ending? Plate tectonics. What causes plate tectonics? Not so fast. Until now, the answer was ...

From a distance, it’s not obvious that Earth is full of life. You have to get pretty close to see the biggest forests, and closer still to see the work of humans, let alone microbes. Nevertheless, ...

Plate boundaries are where the action is. A large fraction of all earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building occurs at plate boundaries. It is also where most of the people on Earth live.

Map of Earth's principal tectonic plates. Earth's lithosphere. Major and minor plates. arrows indicate direction of movement at plate boundaries. Vector illustration. Billions of years ago, Earth's ...

Climate change does its damage in a lot of ways—birthing hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires. Now add to ...

A 2,500 km long line of volcanoes, with 80 volcanic mountains and 41 historically active (since 1760 AD) volcanoes produce an arc stretching along the southern edge of the Bering Sea and onto the ...

Like the volcano planet Mustafar from Star Wars, half of the exoplanet 3844b could be covered in active volcanoes. This planet, discovered in 2019, could be the first world we know, outside the solar ...

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

There’s plenty to say on the matter of bad reporting and misinformation when it comes to volcanic eruptions. No, a supervolcano isn’t what you think it is. No, earthquakes on a volcano aren’t unusual ...

A small, young volcano has been discovered deep beneath the ocean at the oldest part of the Pacific plate. The volcano, which is about 1,500 feet in height and is known as a petit-spot volcano, is ...

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