The Atlantic Ocean has been widening for hundreds of millions of years, but its growth may have briefly gone into overdrive ...

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

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in ...

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

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Mexico’s last surviving glaciers on Pico de Orizaba and Iztaccíhuatl are on the brink of disappearing within five years, ...

A mythical birthplace, a political symbol, and the site of one of history’s most powerful eruptions—all hidden behind one of ...

A proposed Mars helicopter mission would search for signs of life, water and future human footholds in a vast volcanic canyon network.

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