For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...

Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

Love is a burning thing, and it makes a fiery ring […] And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire; the ring of fire.” This ...

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2025? Check your progress and revise your topics through this quiz on International ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

A subset of these planetesimals then accreted to form the Earth, which, over several hundred million years, formed a crust consisting of mobile tectonic plates that hosted the first biosphere. Dr. Fu ...

The Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of numerous tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca, Antarctic, Indian, Australian, Philippine, and ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...

Mexico’s geographic position makes it particularly susceptible to seismic activity, as it sits at the intersection of multiple tectonic plates, including the North American, Cocos, Pacific ...

Cocoa was first cultivated in ancient South America. During the Age of Exploration, the Spanish Conquistadors introduced it to Europe. In the 1850s, steam-powered machines allowed for the mass ...