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

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

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

Under our feet, processes are occurring that could reshape the world map in the long run. Africa, although it seems like a ...

Under our feet, processes are occurring that could reshape the world map in the long run. Africa, although it seems like a ...

One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a ...

This opening, a rift that runs through Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, is being created by the very slow movement of one tectonic plate, the Somali plate, away from another, the larger Nubian plate.

"That Somali plate is continuing to move even further east, creating a giant rift valley right here. It keeps going. "Eventually, Eastern Africa is going to become its new continent, separated ...

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...

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