The city’s architecture travels through time and continents, incorporating everything from slabs of the Italian Alps to meteorites that hit southern Africa 2bn years ago ...

Africa gradually pulled apart along the East African rift, a slow tectonic shift that could have formed a new ocean and ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

Scientists discover continent that had been missing for 375 years ...

At Þingvellir National Park a submerged fissure lies between two drifting tectonic plates. Fed by crystal clear glacial water ...

Antarctica is known as the ‘Continent of Science. This is due to its dedication to peaceful scientific research and ...

Pannotia holds an odd place in Earth science. It is mentioned in textbooks and review papers, but its outline is unclear. The ...

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

The G20’s new critical minerals framework wants to move Africa beyond raw exports so that mineral wealth creates jobs and ...

Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.

In the Canary Islands wine region, growers plant vines in volcanic ash craters called hoyos to protect grapes from wind, heat ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.