The High Seas Treaty, which would allow nations to create marine protected areas in international waters, is now expected to ...

It’s surprising to find remnants of a plate that we just didn’t know about at all,” Suzanna van de Lagemaat, the Utrecht University geologist whose work has reversed decades of conventional wisdom ...

Although the Pacific is currently the world's largest ocean, "it's getting smaller" as the Atlantic gets bigger, Lam noted.

I just returned home from an adventure in Ecuador, the highlight was two weeks on a boat exploring the Galápagos Islands. As ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

Landslides, earthquakes, and subduction faults could generate 1,000-foot mega-tsunamis, wiping coastal communities off the ...

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

Oregon’s Department of Emergency Management hosted the first of a series of Tsunami 101 presentations at the Pine Grove ...

Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden said they are "sounding the alarm" over the Trump Administration’s budget ...

A massive quake might drop the Pacific Northwest coastline by 6 feet, redrawing flood maps and putting thousands of homes at ...

The resulting sea level rise will lead to significant flood risks for huge areas of land, making recovery even harder.