Where plates serving landmasses collide, the crust crumples and buckles into mountain ranges. India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the Himalaya, the highest ...

De-Graft: I’m in Wales, finding out about the country’s tallest mountain - Snowdon. It takes a good few hours to walk up and down it. But thankfully there’s a train you can catch too.

The latest findings by scientists indicate the presence of natural hydrogen gas reserves in the mountains, which could be a ...

Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer layer is made up of plates, which have moved throughout Earth's history. The theory explains the how and why behind mountains, volcanoes ...

An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.

Some mountain ranges are formed when two sections of the Earth’s outer surface, called tectonic plates, push against each other and the pressure forces the ground up. Not all mountains are ...

Gather your supplies! In this episode we will use everyday materials to learn about tectonic plates and fault lines.

Scientists have worked for years to build systems to monitor volcanoes and earthquakes on the West Coast, but DOGE cuts may ...

The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator ... they crumpled into mountain ranges—the Himalayas. By 10 million years ago the two continents were ...

Plate tectonics raise mountains, while erosion—driven by glaciers, rain and wind—wears them down. But there's an often-overlooked factor in this process: the rock itself. "The hypothesis is ...