VOLCANIC activity and seismic tremors have been stirring our nation’s blood. They remind us that the Philippines lies squarely within the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a region where tectonic plates collide ...

Far from boring, this period saw the reorganization of deep Earth in manners that prepared the way for life to grow complex.

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex ...

The vessel 'Sindhu' completes its inaugural trip to Barren Island, promoting Andaman tourism and showcasing the active ...

LEGENDS and myths have always captured the imagination, but some mysteries are rooted in geological reality rather than ...

The massive Olympus Mons volcano on Mars—one of the solar system’s highest peaks—may have towered above a Martian ocean in the distant past, a new study suggests. The research identifies an escarpment ...

Greenland is writhing as eons of ice accumulation and steady melting cause its foundations to change shape. This deformation, ...

Perhaps less well known is Genuino Madruga, who became the first Portuguese sailor to circumnavigate the world single-handed in his yacht Hemingway, and then did it again the other way round against ...

Seismic activity manifested as a swarm of earthquakes between July 29 and August 4, located to the west of the Farasan ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, otherwise known as “The Big One,” is an earthquake with a magnitude greater than 7.1 ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...