I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

Los Angeles and other areas in California are among the highest-risk areas for wildfires — but they're not the only ones. Many fires take place in areas where humans have overstepped into nature ...

Makran Despande, Aditya Srivastav, Sriram Raghavan and director Anurag Kashyap were also snapped at the event. Photos and videos from the event are now going viral online. When Manoj Bajpayee ...

LOS ANGELES—In the still-smoldering neighborhoods of Altadena, where fires destroyed more than 2,700 structures, about 80 people have defied orders to evacuate, staying behind to protect what is ...

The area in Gaza which Israel's military has told people to go to "for their safety" has been hit by 97 strikes since May, BBC Verify analysis has revealed. The findings come as negotiations for a ...

Iran is planning to relocate its capital from Tehran to the southern city of Makran, a move that could mark a historic milestone if implemented. Makran, part of the Balochistan plateau shared by ...

In 2011, during a provincial visit to Sistan-Baluchestan, the government approved the establishment of the country’s third petrochemical hub in the Chabahar Free Zone, at a location identified by the ...

The Z-Morh or Sonmarg tunnel, stretching 6.4km beneath a treacherous mountain pass cut off by snow for between four to six months a year, is part of a wider infrastructure drive in border zones.

Megathrust earthquakes occur when stress at subduction zones is released, causing significant plate slippage. These events disrupt long-term tectonic changes, complicating modeling efforts.

Here, however, the new high-resolution model shows massive plate-like blobs all over the world, far from any of the subduction zones known in recent geological history: beneath the western Pacific ...