For decades, climate science has treated Earth’s shifting crust as a slow, distant backdrop to the drama of global warming. New research is rewriting that script, showing that the way continents drift ...

Rocks in Australia preserve evidence that plates in Earth’s crust were moving 3.5 billion years ago, a finding that pushes back the beginnings of plate tectonics by hundreds of millions of years.

Vanishing lakes in southern Tibet may have triggered earthquakes in the region by "awakening" long-dormant faults in Earth's crust, researchers say. The finding adds to evidence of an unexpectedly ...