Researchers have identified a possible link between climate change and the frequency of earthquakes — and the quakes may also start a vicious circle of accelerating climate change.

Plato (PLAte TOrque algorithm) is a specialised python package to study the torques acting on tectonic plates from GPlates plate reconstructions.

The City of Portland has approved a land use statement for Zenith Energy despite an attempt by city councilors to delay the move last week. After a week of baby watch, Oregon Zoo’s beloved Asian ...

Ongoing research has revealed hints of buried land that stretches from Greenland through Iceland to the Faroe Islands. At the center of this conversation is the concept that these tectonic plates ...

The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates as "bedsheets" in Portuguese and refers to the rolling white dunes that ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognised as a legal person on ...

Chris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 and is now editor-in-chief. He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course. You take a ...

A New View on Plate Tectonics Mar. 17, 2021 — Along submarine mountain ranges, the mid-ocean ridges, forces from the Earth's interior push tectonic plates apart, forming new ocean floor and thus ...

U.S. enduro racer Marco "Randy" Osborne and Ella Conolly of Scotland took first-places overall for the Pro Men’s and Pro Women's categories at the 2025 Andes Pacifico enduro race, held Jan.

Earth's biggest hidden mountains revealed deep beneath Africa ... they are found surrounded by a "graveyard" of cold sunken tectonic plates descended through the mantle via subduction.