The country's fiery liquid landscape shifts, on a massive scale. By Michael Dumiak Kristín Jóhannsdóttir woke at two in the morning, looked from her window over fields to the east, and saw curtains of ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Earth’s mantle behaves like a slow-moving fluid, but that hasn’t stopped two vast regions at its base from maintaining a ...

When glaciers and ice sheets melt, they can destabilize slopes and reactivate faults, which in turn can trigger landslides ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Bárðarbunga - the second-largest volcano in the country - has been hit with a swarm of 130 earthquakes within just five hours ...

Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it ...

Around 300 to 200 million years ago, the Cape Verde hotspot, a plume of hot material from Earth's mantle, sat beneath the region that would eventually become the Great Lakes. The intense heat and ...

Tristan da Cunha is the world’s most remote inhabited island Formed by volcanic activity during Gondwana's breakup Home to unique wildlife like penguins and albatrosses ...