An island emerges from the waters, then vanishes, as if it never existed. In the Caspian Sea, this phenomenon has been repeating for over a century, defying expectations and captivating ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, the Neotethys plate is tearing apart, dragging Earth's crust downward. This shift may ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

The region falls within a convergence zone where the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates are colliding.' Worryingly, mud volcanoes have the potential to be hazardous thanks to their ability to expel ...

Azerbaijan, a country located on the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe, is the world capital of mud volcanoes thanks to its position above the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates.

An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...