For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...

Almost everybody agrees Micheál Martin’s heir apparent is Jim O’Callaghan. The latter’s declaration last year that he was ...

Climate change is increasingly around the world, and we are now at a point where the damage could become permanent if we do ...

A careful analysis of the complex boundary where four tectonic plates meet reveals that one of the slabs is tearing itself ...

I was parked up in a hot, dusty truck with wildlife film-maker Russell MacLaughlin, looking back and forth between a huge ...

Three minor earthquakes were recorded in Batangas province on Saturday, November 1, the Institute of Volcanology and ...

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

The voyage of the HMS Challenger in the 1870s was a sprawling 3-1/2-year expedition to explore the world's oceans. The ...

An earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan near Mazar-e Sharif, one of the country’s largest cities around 20:30 GMT (01:00 local time). The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.3 and a depth of 28km ...

Spend an extra day in Reykjavík exploring food tours, lava shows, hidden lagoons, and a luxury Super Jeep adventure with ICELANDIA.

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

The Great Blue Hole is the largest sea hole in the world and is in the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll near the ...