New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

It has been more than a century since the 'unsinkable' ocean liner plunged to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, leaving more ...

The Japanese government has issued an urgent warning over the catastrophic damage which could be caused by an impending ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...