When plumes of magma well up through Earth's lithosphere, they create volcanoes, islands, seamounts, and other features on ...

Last year, NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Investigation, or 'EMIT', recorded the planet's 50 biggest methane emitters. The top culprits include Turkmenistan, which produces plumes that stretch ...

Lava that erupts from hotspots around the world seems to come from a similar ancestral magma, new research finds.

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

Satellite footage shows a dramatic plume of smoke from the fast-moving California wildfire extending out across the Pacific.

Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from Colombia’s Universidad de Los Andes, led by Cuban geologist Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, ...

A CME was not produced from the solar flare, which removes the chance for a geomagnetic storm to impact Earth and create ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by Cuban, Colombian and Utrecht geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

Volcanic eruptions caused sulfates to gush into the air and turned Earth into an icebox. Later, dinosaurs came into this ...

They form from large blobs of rock that slowly rise from the deep Earth's mantle -- so-called mantle plumes. When they get close to the base of the Earth's plates, the rocks of the plume as well ...