A hidden “tear” beneath the continents may have been fueling oceanic volcanoes for millions of years, study reveals.
Forget the neat, tidy narratives you might have heard in school about a stable, unchanging Earth. Just like history, our ...
Seen from space, our planet has often been called a "blue marble." It's not, however, just the swirly white clouds that give Earth its marbled appearance. The continents: They are what complete the ...
Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.
Deep beneath your feet, far beyond where any drill can reach, something strange is hiding. Two continent-sized blobs of rock sit just above Earth’s core, hot, dense and stubbornly different from ...
The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...
Africa. This is happening along the East African Rift, a long stretch of land where the Earth’s surface is slowly pulling ...
The surface of our world has been in a constant state of flux for millions of years. Continents have wandered, oceans have ...
View post: REI's Top-Rated Winter Gloves That Are Warm Enough for 'Single-Digit Temperatures' Are 30% Off Africa’s future coastline might look a lot different…millions of years from now, that is.