COPENHAGEN/OTTAWA — In a dramatic illustration of the rapid and unfolding transformations reshaping Earth’s polar regions, Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission has documented a monumental calving event in northwest Greenland.…
Main Facts Deep within the Earth’s mantle, a colossal upwelling of superheated rock known as the African Superplume is actively reshaping the surface of the African continent. For over a…
KIEL, GERMANY — Deep beneath the rolling, remote waves of the South Pacific, a colossal geological engine is at work, operating as nature’s own high-pressure foundry. For decades, geologists have…
EDINBURGH — A scientific debate that has spanned more than two decades has finally reached a definitive conclusion. An international team of researchers has officially confirmed that the enigmatic Silverpit…
MANCHESTER, UK — For centuries, volcanologists have faced a confounding geological puzzle: why do volcanoes with nearly identical chemical compositions, sourced from similar depths and operating under comparable tectonic pressures,…
TOKYO / FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA — More than a decade after a wall of seawater reshaped the coastline of northeastern Japan, triggered a nuclear crisis, and claimed nearly 20,000 lives, scientists…
WASHINGTON — In the cosmic theater of our solar system, Earth and its rocky neighbors have long played the roles of both survivors and targets. While the catastrophic impact that…
SAN FRANCISCO — For decades, the nightmare scenario for the Pacific Northwest has been the "really big one"—a catastrophic magnitude 9 or greater earthquake originating from the Cascadia Subduction Zone.…
PORTLAND, Ore. — A groundbreaking seismic analysis of the subterranean architecture beneath the Pacific Northwest has revealed that the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate lies significantly closer to the surface…
By Global Science Correspondent Published in the Journal of Geophysical Research — Solid Earth Review Main Facts: A Geological Anomaly Towering Over the Mediterranean For centuries, Mount Etna has loomed…
