Building up of ice sheets in the far north might be due to strong currents in the South Atlantic

A mammoth ring of mountains could have once stretched from Spain to New Zealand

Is the North Pole shifting towards Japan?

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, US, recently laun

Dust and fungal spores thrown up during earthquakes can cause respiratory infections, say researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, US. Three years after a quake in

it could be the splash of the century and with disastrous results. The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii - 20 km long, 10 km wide and 9 km deep - is sinking into the Pacific Ocean at 7 cm a second. The

Two physicists claim that dark matter making up as much as 99 per cent of the universe, may have changed the course of life on earth. Samar Abbas and Asfar Abbas of the Institute of Physics at

Recent research into understanding the genesis of oceanic crusts shows that crust formation is not equally vigorous everywhere. In Iceland, where the mid-ocean ridge emerges above sea level, new

Increase in incidence of earthquakes in Kerala, otherwise a seismically stable zone, is due to high sea pressure and changing land use patterns

Cracking of a fragment of the earth's crust in Canada provides a snapshot of an amazing geological event