New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

The Atlantic Ocean has been widening for hundreds of millions of years, but its growth may have briefly gone into overdrive ...