The world's smallest continent is on the move - creeping about 2.8 inches, or seven centimetres, a year towards southeast Asia.

For centuries, we have been taught that there are seven continents, but new research has suggested there are actually only ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

Tremors as strong as magnitude five have raised concerns the volcano that forms Santorini's steep, picturesque cliffs, could ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust ... free access to information of public interest. Media ownership in Australia is ...

Several thousand earthquakes have been recorded near the Greek island since late January. So why is this happening?

Third, there are forces of class realignment transforming electoral politics in the United States, Britain, Europe and, to a lesser extent, Australia ... shifting of tectonic plates which gives ...

A tsunami is a series of waves generated by the sudden movement of the ocean surface ... which are geographically close to active tectonic plate boundaries. Here's some advice from the NSW ...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth, and we're still in the dark about much of the life that calls it home. Here are just a few of the trench's eye-popping residents.

These so-called “metal highways” form through deep-Earth processes, concentrating essential elements like copper, cobalt, and rare earth elements along the margins of ancient tectonic plates ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...