Since the 19th century, humans have built nearly 7,000 dams, holding enough water to fill the Grand Canyon twice. These ...

Gigantic hidden fortresses discovered 1,800 miles underground in Earth's mantle, rewrite how the planet's interior works.

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Underneath our feet, deep down below the Earth’s crust and its other layers lies the core, or where the planet’s magnetic fields are generated. However, experts now say it’s changing and ...

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

While many science books would have you believe the Earth’s lower mantle—the layer deep below the crust—is smooth, it’s actually made up of a mountainous-like … The post Volcanic eruptions may be ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except for one small chunk.

The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on the earth’s surface, with one of the world’s ...

By dragging huge chunks of crust into the mantle, Earth's middle layer, plate tectonics pulls carbon from the planet's surface and atmosphere, stabilizing the climate. It also pushes life ...

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, resides a belt of volcanic rock that displays a blend of dark and light ...

Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and as the eons passed, the crust of the young planet experienced turbulence. Asteroid collisions shattered some parts, which melted and recrystallized, while ...