Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

The Yarlung Tansgpo / Brahmaputra dam shows we often don’t know how to deal with rivers that cross national borders.

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

It appears that humanity has messed with plate tectonics just to improve cotton yields,” said one earth scientist.

Such measurements capture the strain that accumulates in the Earth’s crust due to tectonic forces. The NGRI strain map could be useful to pinpoint regions in Himalayas that are prone to earthquakes in ...

This has been going on for over 150 years but has rapidly increased since the 1960s. It affects the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rockies, Iceland, and Alaska — and 1.9 billion people around the world need ...