Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago.

For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring Billion.” They assumed not much occurred during the time: mountain building ...

The rocks didn’t look like much from the outside. Scattered across a remote stretch of western Australia called North Pole ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Oct 29, 2025, 03:16pm EDT Nov 01, 2025, 01:11pm EDT For the first ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ice ages and warm climates, new research finds. Published in Communications ...

Africa is slowly tearing apart, a process that could lead to a massive land collision creating mountains taller than the ...

BISHKEK, 27 November (BelTA) – At the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Bishkek, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko stated that tectonic shifts are taking place in ...