The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

Peter Lonsdale, a professor and researcher of marine geology at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, died May 10, 2026, at the age of 78. Over more than five decades at Scripps ...

On the ground, a common question asked by locals is whether or not the coastal uplift, which is also expressed by the recession of the shoreline, could be a sign that the sea can come back in the form ...

The movement of the tectonic plates influences the movement of Earth's continents. The Earth we see today, about 336 million years ago, was only one supercontinent known as Pangea. In this article, we ...

Earth’s mantle appears to be leaking a little along Central Africa. If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half. In a ...

Earth’s continental crust has grown and been reshaped over more than four billion years through the interplay of mantle dynamics, magmatic differentiation and crustal recycling. In its infancy, a ...

The Earth’s crust is constantly changing. It’s currently made of many huge rock slabs called tectonic plates—seven major ones along with many more smaller plates—that fit together like puzzle pieces ...

The puzzle pieces of Earth’s rocky crust are slowly and steadily moving — a process known as plate tectonics. These dynamic movements helped to create the habitats and climate that fostered the ...

The colossal movements of tectonic plates shape our world, influencing the composition of Earth’s atmosphere, the planet’s protective magnetic field and perhaps even the flourishing of life. Now ...

I’m a self-proclaimed wellness warrior. Honestly, there isn’t much I haven’t tried, or would at least be open to testing. Supplements? I’ve got dozens of them. Red light therapy masks? I alternate ...

An earthquake-generating chunk of tectonic plate has been discovered beneath Northern California. It’s attached to the bottom of the North American plate like gum stuck to a shoe. Using abundant, tiny ...