Uniquely, Earth is the only planet known to have both plate tectonics and life, a coincidence that many scientists believe is ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

India and China are neighbors that for centuries have disagreed over certain stretches of their shared borders. Indian ...

The border between India and China has long been a significant point of tension. Recently, experts have raised a new concern- ...

This advanced undergraduate textbook provides a thoroughly modern overview of plate tectonics and is the perfect resource for a capstone geology course. It presents plate tectonics as a multifaceted, ...

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...

In the wake of the National Seismological Service recording 1,799 earthquakes within the past 48 hours—including a foreshock ...

That doesn’t sound goodA supercomputer has predicted when humans will become extinct.Though climate change is always in the ...

The mediterranean sea straddles two tectonic plates and is lined by large towns and cities. We need to take the tsunami ...