Recent satellite data reveal that the Konya Basin in the Central Anatolian Plateau of Türkiye is continually being reshaped ...

Deep beneath your feet is a subterranean melting pot. A fiery inferno ready to boil over at any moment. Anywhere or anytime. Imagine that today is the day the ground beneath your feet gave way, and ...

shows the sinking in the region is due to multi-stage lithospheric dripping—a phenomenon named for the instability of rocky material that makes up Earth's crust and upper mantle. As dense rock ...

The collapse of a 1.2km-high (0.7 miles) mountain peak in east Greenland last September caused water in the fjord below to ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

The two fossil specimens, representing a single coelacanth, were collected during a 2008 expedition to what was once an ...

A tourist has suffered second- and third-degree burns after hiking off-trail at Yellowstone National Park and falling through the thin geothermal crust that surrounds Old Faithful. The woman ...

A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, ...

Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, with thousands of ...

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The article examines the origins of ocean salinity through processes like weathering, erosion, volcanic activity, and ...

The story that the Moon was produced by a Mars-sized object slamming into the Earth is widely accepted, but a new study ...