The environmental disaster dubbed the "Quiet Chernobyl" still affects Earth's mantle today, with land around the Aral Sea steadily rising due to water loss. The post Quiet Chernobyl Triggers Ongoing ...

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...

Mantle plumes were the implicit link in previous studies relating BLOBS to giant volcanic eruptions. Their shape is a bit ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Research reveals historical eruptions are linked to moving underground structures called BLOBS, 2500km below the earth's ...

Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts. One such event contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 ...

Research teams led by CAS institutions including the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) and the National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), along with Nanjing University and others, have made ...