A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global geography over millions of years.

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

New research suggests an ancient hotspot helped shape the Great Lakes, challenging traditional formation theories.

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

Under our feet, processes are occurring that could reshape the world map in the long run. Africa, although it seems like a ...

A new study from the University of Houston could change the way we understand how lakes were formed.Aibing Li, a UH seismologist and co-author of the ...

The earth’s prevailing winds were previously thought to slow down ocean weather patterns like eddies and strain, but new research shows that prevailing winds can energize ocean weather patterns ...

Their research revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth’s surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate – the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents ...

The surface of the ocean is warming four times faster than it was 40 years ago, scientists have warned. As the Earth absorbs more heat and reflects less back into space, this increase is only set to ...

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale and are very difficult to measure and model. But recently scientists ...