A radical redefinition of this range of hills, as proposed, could ruin both its ecology and ability to shield India’s capital ...

What makes a mountain grow, and what keeps it from reaching unimaginable heights? Mount Everest, rising 8,848.86 metres above sea level, offers a case study in the interplay of tectonics, erosion, ...

The endeavour to define the Aravallis has been long and contentious, with prolonged court battles and public protests along ...

Public outrage over the Supreme Court's hill definition in the Aravalli range highlights its geological, cultural, and historical significance to India.

The Cook Islands—population 15,000—are being courted by the two superpowers as they hunt for more rare earths, and could ...

The coming generations will hardly believe that there was a chain of the oldest mountains, namely the Aravalli hills, on the Indian earth and they will ...

The 2025 mega-quake in Myanmar was a catastrophe for the communities it struck, but for scientists it was also a once-in-a-generation natural experiment that unfolded almost perfectly on camera, in ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

A massive volcano hidden beneath the Pacific is swelling again, but its predicted eruption never came. Scientists are now ...

Data from Axial, the most-monitored underwater volcano, are helping geophysicists hone eruption predictions. For Axial, 2026 ...

The Bermuda archipelago is actually resting on a 20-kilometer underplate that gives it enough lift to rise well above sea ...