With low-lying areas around the world increasingly susceptible to flooding -- this at a time when population growth has necessitated the construction of more and more homes in such areas -- the ...

Horizontal convection describes fluid motion driven by differential heating along a horizontal boundary, whereby variations in buoyancy generate circulation. Recent theoretical, computational and ...

Computer models confirm that the African Superplume is responsible for the unusual deformations, as well as rift-parallel seismic anisotropy observed beneath the East African Rift System. Computer ...

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications ...