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 ...

In the first image from November 2022, the underwater mud volcano is solidly beneath sea level, with no discernable land ...