Scientists warn that Earth faces an unusual danger as glaciers disappear. About 1,000 glaciers vanish each year, and this ...

Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

Researchers at Göttingen University have uncovered new evidence that some of Earth’s most precious metals began their journey ...

Gold and other precious metals are leaking from Earth’s core into the layers above, eventually making their way up to the surface during the formation of volcanic islands like Hawaii, a new study ...

Over millions of years, the Earth’s upper layers have performed a dance that has created mountains, volcanoes, continents, ridges and ocean trenches. Tectonic plates play a key role in this process.