Diamonds present at the birth of the Okavango Delta have a lasting connection to this landscape and are playing a unique role ...

The towering mountains aren't simply standing on a firm, rigid, hard crust. There's also a fragment of hot molten mantle that ...

A 100-year-old theory explaining how Asia can carry the huge weight of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau needs to be rewritten, a new study suggests.

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit Nevada on Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake shook parts of the state, with a shallow depth of 3.7 miles, the agency said. Reports ...

Even though Australia is far from the edges of tectonic plates, the continent is still being squeezed and stressed by the large forces at those distant plate boundaries.

Rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have revealed the origins of one of the world's most promising new deposits ...

Some researchers believe faults are always near failure, so any natural, or tectonic, forces or human-related actions can bring faults to failure.

Some researchers believe faults are always near failure, so any natural, or tectonic, forces or human-related actions can bring faults to failure.

Using data from NASA’s InSight lander, Constantinos Charalambous from the Imperial College of London and colleagues studied ...

Some researchers believe faults are always near failure, so any natural, or tectonic, forces or human-related actions can bring faults to failure.

Australia is a long way from the tectonic plate boundaries where most earthquakes happen – but we can’t escape the forces they create.