"Our study provides us with another important clue in the mystery of how continents formed and spread across Earth..."

Earth's crust on the island of Taiwan has displayed surprisingly rapid upward movement over the past half million years, a new study shows.

Earth's crust on the island of Taiwan has displayed surprisingly rapid upward movement over the past half million years, a new study shows.

Research indicates that "the Roof of the World" is higher than it once was. The cause is a tectonic plate collision between what's now India and China.

A new discovery about how rocks on Earth rusted and turned red could help predict what will happen with future climate change, researchers report.

The path of the Nile River has remained unchanged for about 30 million years. Now scientists know why.

"The bottom line is that geological conditions led to a decision to use a specialized cement that failed. This... was a root cause of the ultimate blowout."