New research reveals that a rift in Earth’s crust is just a few million years away from splitting the continent of Africa ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A 35-mile-long crack, known as the East African Rift, is gradually tearing through ...

“New oceans forming there first” the words seem the prerogative of text books why should it now make a difference? In the eastern part of Africa the ground is being requested to do what continents do ...

The African continent is undergoing a geological transformation that, in the distant future, could create a new ocean. Researchers studying the East African Rift System have observed the tectonic ...

Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath the East African Rift System. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Africa’s future coastline might look a lot different...millions of years from now, that is. Scientists tracking tectonic activity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The East African Rift ...

"It's tearin' up my heart when I'm with you, but when we are apart, I feel it, too." Sure, it's a great opener to a pop song, but it also briefly describes what's happening to Africa. The continent is ...