Off Vancouver Island, an ocean plate is breaking apart, giving scientists their first clear view of a dying subduction zone

In October 2025, scientists at Louisiana State University identified an extraordinary geological phenomenon: an oceanic plate breaking apart within a subduction zone, a process that had never been ...

[Earth Science] Are the Continents Really Moving? | Explaining 100 Years of Scientific History from Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics

Explaining 100 Years of Scientific History from Continental Drift to Plate TectonicsIntroduction | Why do the South American ...
Science Daily

Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest

Scientists have captured a subduction zone off Vancouver Island in the process of tearing itself apart, revealing that these massive tectonic systems may die piece by piece rather than all at once.
Phys.org

Plate boundaries may experience higher temperature and stress than previously thought

Temperature and shear stress are two influential variables that affect faulting and seismicity in subduction zones, where tectonic plates converge. Yet because earthquakes originate tens of kilometers ...
CNN

Scientists find clues that a new tectonic plate boundary is forming

Sub-Saharan Africa could split up in a few million years, and scientists believe they might be witnessing the early stages of this geological process. The split would occur along the Kafue Rift, which ...
earthsky

Surprise! Plate tectonics helped create Venus’ hellscape

Venus and Earth are similar in size and mass, but took strikingly different evolutionary paths. After all, Earth is – at present – an oasis for life. And Venus, the planet next door, is a boiling ...