A new study has found that most rare earth deposits – sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy ...

A new study suggests rare earth elements form in magma above ancient subduction zones, as that magma reacts with substances ...

Learn how Mount Etna stands apart from most volcanoes, having been formed by pockets of magma held in Earth's upper mantle.

A new look at the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate beneath the coast of northern Oregon suggests this subducting slab is shallower ...

A new UW study on the Cascadia Subduction Zone was released in February 2026. The study indicated that a difference between ...

A large earthquake near America's northern border has rattled millions in the southern part of Canada and sent shockwaves ...

The Yellowstone supervolcano Yellowstone supervolcano, which lies underneath a 30–by–45–mile crater Yellowstone Caldera, has ...

A sideways flow of hot mantle rock, not a deep plume rising from near Earth’s core, may be feeding one of the planet’s most ...

More than 18 quakes were recorded in an “active swarm” of tremors starting around midnight Sunday on the Juan de Fuca Ridge.

Located in Sicily, Mount Etna is Europe's most active volcano. Yet its origin remains largely enigmatic, as no existing ...