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The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift, the African continent is being pulled apart by forces deep below the surface, setting up a process that is creating a new ocean…

This is a post from my friend Richie where he invites everyone to involve themselves in a New Earth Initiative program that has paid tiers but is also free to use!! submitted by /u/Longjumping-Ad-8265 [link] [comments]

See also: The study as published in the journal Geology. submitted by /u/JapKumintang1991 [link] [comments]

Hi r/EarthScience, I'm a solo developer who got obsessed with how much you can tell about a place from its rocks alone, and ended up building a small browser puzzle around the idea.…

See also: The study as it was published in the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. submitted by /u/JapKumintang1991 [link] [comments]

The Earth operates on cycles to keep itself going. Energy moves up the food chain, drop to the bottom, and moves up again. The rain turns into clouds which turn into rain which turns back into clouds.…

If you’re joining this year’s International Earth Science Olympiad, I’d love to connect! I’m part of Team Mongolia, and it would be great to meet and get to know other participants before we all head to Torino. submitted by /u/irmak0n_ [link] [comments]

See also: The study as it was published in Science Advances submitted by /u/JapKumintang1991 [link] [comments]

Deep beneath the Pacific, one undersea fault has produced nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every few years for decades. Researchers now think strange, water-soaked barrier zones inside the fault act like natural brakes, stopping ruptures in place…

Methana volcano looked dead for more than 100,000 years, yet magma kept building below ground. By dating tiny crystals, scientists found a hidden system still active, raising new doubts about how safely “extinct” volcanoes are judged around the world.…

From Latest articles | smithsonianmag.com: It Took Millions of Years for Australia's Famous Twelve Apostles Landmark to Rise Out of the Sea

The Optical Guidelines document provides standardized, transparent, and repeatable process for assessing the quality of optical data from commercial Earth Observation missions.

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water may flood it in a few million years

It should be possible, but getting there will require a greater understanding of subsurface physics.

Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena.

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early human survival; it actively pushed populations away from…

A centuries-old vision of a mechanical volcano has finally erupted into reality, as two University of Melbourne engineering students recreated a design first imagined in 1775 by volcanology enthusiast Sir William Hamilton.…

Two of the most dangerous fault systems on the U.S. West Coast may be more connected than scientists once thought. New research suggests the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault can “sync up,” triggering earthquakes within minutes or hours…

By reconstructing a 700,000-year history of Methana volcano, geologists found a prehistoric phase when it appeared inactive on the surface, despite magma building up below ground

One of the most powerful radar systems ever launched into space has mapped the ground moving beneath one of fastest subsiding capitals in the world: Mexico