Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

The Tara Polar Station, a $23 million research vessel with a crew of 12, will drift across the Arctic ice to enable better ...

There are islands close to England that resemble the Caribbean but many people aren't aware that they exist - and that they ...

Roads in Charleston, South Carolina, were impassable due to flooding on Sunday after torrential rain drenched cities across ...

Between about 12,000 to 6,000 years ago, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and ... spreading and continental drift operate at timescales of millions ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of ...

New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ... have also affected the horizontal motion of North America and the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge. The thaw may also have had ...

At the same time, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and Eurasian plates ... long time—that processes like seafloor spreading and continental drift ...

The drifting Antarctic iceberg A-23A came to a sudden stop in late February off the coast of South Georgia Island — a British ...