Scientists found that a "cap" of bubbles and magma stands between the magma reservoir underneath Yellowstone National Park ...

Ever been mesmerized by the swirling colors of Grand Prismatic Spring and wondered what fuels that otherworldly boil? It ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Geoscientists have discovered a magma cap at Yellowstone National Park that is likely playing a critical role in preventing a ...

Apr. 9, 2025 — Engineers have hit the trifecta of sustainability technology: A group has developed a low-cost method to produce carbon-free 'green' hydrogen via solar-powered electrolysis of ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

Imagine standing on a scorched landscape where the ground is cracked and shimmering, and the sky glows a deep, fiery orange.

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Apr. 14, 2025 — A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to travel across the Arctic Ocean. The ...

(via Steve Mould) Thanks to Galilean relativity it should be just as hard to run on an inclined treadmill as it is to run on a hill of the same incline. But you don't gain... (via Minute Earth) There ...

Volcano Discovery reported. The vast majority of earthquakes result from the constant movement of tectonic plates, which are massive, solid slabs of rock that make up the planetary surface and ...

Mantle plumes can stay fixed in place for millions of years while tectonic plates move slowly above them. As a plate drifts, the plume continues to produce volcanoes, which form a chain of islands.