The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will eventually break apart altogether - with one US academic now theorising this could ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

The ongoing insurgency in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by M23 rebels threatens to ignite renewed conflict in the ...

For decades, geologists have been closely monitoring developments in the East African Rift (EAR) system - a fissure, which stretches 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide along the deserts of ...

Solving issues to achieve optimum development of the Great Rift Valley’s unique geothermal systems Kenya is in the process of switching its main source of power from hydropower, which is unstable due ...

Nestled in western Kenya's highlands, 2,200 meters above sea level, Eldoret — a six-hour drive from Nairobi that crosses both ...

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...