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

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

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts ...

But this steep ravine in East Africa’s Great Rift Valley, which has played a key ... After collecting archaeological, geological and palaeoclimatic data, the international team of researchers ...

New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that are expelled during eruptions and then dissipate over time as the ...

Thirteen years ago, a satellite acquired this beautiful image (above) of light and sand playing off a portion of the ocean floor in the Bahamas. The caption that accompanied the image didn’t include ...

1 /2 Video by U.S. Geological Survey U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ... with no unusual activity noted along Kilauea’s East Rift Zone or Southwest Rift Zone. Don 't miss out on what 's happening ...

The U.S. Department of Interior announced it approved the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians' request to place a 128-acre parcel of land, where a proposed casino project is set to live ...

But he knows that we do this." What they do is look at Manger's old geology slides. In the beginning, Manger could explain each picture in great detail and Morton would take notes. However ...

He will be in Kesses and Kapseret constituencies. President Ruto on Thursday embarked on a three-day development tour of his Rift Valley backyard. The committee is chaired by Belgut MP Nelson Koech.