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

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

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

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

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

What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley,' ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

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

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

This event, in turn, has a lot to do with the consequences for biodiversity, ecosystems, and human societies. The East African Rift Valley: A peek into future geography The East African Rift isn’t ...

Afrigen Biologics has secured a $6.2m grant from CEPI to develop the first mRNA-based vaccine against Rift Valley fever.

‘What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley,’ Ken Macdonald, a professor at the University of ...