The melting of ice from glaciers and landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctica is causing the Earth’s crust to warp slightly, a new study suggests. As ice sheets and glaciers melt across the globe ...

Picture the Earth’s crust and you most probably think of dense, dry rock. You don’t imagine a goey, honey-like substance trickling down into the planet’s deep underbelly. And yet, new research has ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The melting of Earth's polar ice is warping the planet's crust. This shape change is subtle, but ...

Beneath our feet, slabs of Earth’s crust are quietly vanishing. Known as subduction, this geological sleight of hand sees crust sink into the mantle and disappear—like Earth eating itself alive.

As ice sheets melt in Greenland and the Antarctic, the water that is generated shifts the planet’s crust on a global scale, reveals a new theoretical model by a researcher who recently completed her ...

Chris Kirkland receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Phil Sutton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

The crust has survived massive amounts of upheaval and change. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 4-billion-year-old piece of ...

The "swarm" of tens of thousands of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini earlier this year was triggered by molten rock pumping through an underground channel over three months, scientists ...

Ancient fragments of Earth's crust acted as 'seeds' for new crust to grow from. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Around 3 billion ...