First global map of mantle earthquakes reveals seismic activity far beneath continents, challenging old ideas about Earth’s deep rocks.

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A new 3D subsurface model shows how variations in rock strength beneath the Marmara Sea could trigger future large ...

Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African ...

I was driving in a town in central Ukraine last summer. All the cars pulled over, and we did, too. People got out and knelt.

An earthquake has been reported near the former mining town of Stilfontein. Was this tremor mining-related?

More than 220 people were killed in two successive landslides on Jan. 28 and 29 in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The victims were artisanal miners known as “diggers.” The accident occurred at ...

By the end of this century, parts of Africa could face heatwaves for 250-300 days a year, which will make it difficult for people to survive.

In 2003, an orphaned group of elephants was rescued from slaughter in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) due to a severe drought and lack of food by a group of ...

Large European reinsurer Hannover Re expanded its retrocession protections by around 17%, or EUR 200 million to EUR 1.4 ...

Abuses against civilians by government forces and armed groups have become rampant in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.