A team of Earth scientists has discovered that continents are slowly peeling apart from below—sending fragments deep into the ...

The knowledge of how Earth recycled its crust revealed that fragments of continents slowly peeled away and swept deep beneath ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

The continents we know are not stable entities. According to a study published in Nature Geoscience, their base undergoes ...

Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.

Detached continental material travels into oceanic mantle, sustaining eruptions for tens of millions of years, researchers ...

A colossal seaweed belt stretching across the Atlantic is exploding in size—and scientists have just uncovered a startling ...

There are many advantages and challenges of Africa splitting into two separate continents with a new ocean between them. But do I have the right to peer into a future millions of years away? I think ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...

Cleaning up our oceans will be no easy task. Plastics are more prevalent than ever, and thousands of miles of microplastic soup is an unprecedented mess. And it’s everywhere-- microplastics are ...

A layover on a trip to India began a research odyssey that has led scientists to verify the existence of a "lost continent" below the East African island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. A ...