Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

The Geological Society of London says of Africa’s severing: ‘Today the EAR remains above sea level however in the future, as ...

Though the volcano’s magma chambers could hold enough material for a caldera-forming event, none of them are likely to erupt soon.

Hubbard, who first joined the USGS as a postdoc, is part of the agency’s Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI).

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

We examine the mountaineering career of the Duke of Abruzzi, who was born on this day in 1873. The energetic royal was ...

As a landlocked country, Ethiopia has expressed dissatisfaction at its reliance on the Port of Djibouti for access to the Red Sea. Recently, Prime Minister Abiy stated that control of the Red Sea and ...

New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that ...

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

Unlocking seismic data could aid the search for fresh groundwater in Africa, where water scarcity affects two-thirds of the ...

A shocking development has just emerged out and has come to light that a brand new continent might end up forming pretty soon ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all have shuffled off our mortal coils by then, the effects Professor Macdonald ...