Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas ...

A part of Northern Africa is slowly splitting apart from the rest of the continent and may eventually create a whole new ...

Volcanoes might seem like nature’s incinerators, but using them to burn up trash would be dangerous and disrespectful to ...

Two members of the Wyoming Air National Guard played critical roles in successfully evacuating a patient in cardiac arrest ...

This incident underscores a stark reality: Under some climate scenarios, scientists predict, 80 percent of Antarctica’s emperor penguin colonies will disappear by the turn of the century.

Can melting glaciers influence the acceleration of continental drift and volcanic activity? New research suggests that this ...

Strangest of all, scientists have found that its gusts of gas are loaded with tiny crystals of metallic gold, no larger than ...

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

Researchers from Rice University imaged the magma underneath Yellowstone and showed how it vents pressure, reducing the likelihood of a massive eruption anytime soon.

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

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

Prof Isobel Yeo, an expert on highly dangerous submarine volcanoes with Britain's National Oceanography Centre, is leading the mission. Around two-thirds of the world's volcanoes are underwater ...