Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Our oceans are as remarkable as they are mysterious; the deep dark waters as foreign to us as far-reaching planets. Though ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts. One such event contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and ...

With the backing of the US government, a Canadian company is poised to sidestep UN laws and start vacuuming what it deems battery-grade metals from international waters.

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...

In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving ...

In recent years, the Southern Ocean has undergone one of the most dramatic environmental shifts observed anywhere on Earth.