Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

The crust beneath part of Kenya and Ethiopia is thinner than geologists thought, new measurements have found. That has ...

A vast new ocean stretching hundreds of miles could one day split Africa in two, scientists have warned, after discovering ...

Deep beneath Africa, a massive flow of hot mantle rock appears to be quietly reshaping the continent in ways scientists did not fully expect.

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

A tourist enjoys the scenery of the Great Rift Valley at a viewing platform in Kiambu County, Kenya, April 21, 2026. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shot of the Main Ethiopian Rift, taken at Boset Volcano in Ethiopia. - Courtesy Prof. Thomas Gernon/University of Southampton ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Magnetic data collected in the late 1960s reveals how the ...

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 ...

New research shows the Turkana Rift in eastern Africa has a much thinner crust than previously recognized, indicating it is further along in the continental rifting process. Scientists say this region ...

Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the fictionalized end of the world onto the big screen. Fortunately, the scientific logic for many such ...