Cycling through the African Great Rift Valley presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness awe-inspiring landscapes ...

The East African Rift System is a 4,000-mile-long, 22-million-year-old zone that extends from Jordan to Mozambique. And it's been increasingly active in the past two decades, leading to ...

A group of researchers from across the world has found that a steady, rhythmic pulse deep beneath Ethiopia’s Afar region, much like a human heartbeat, is gradually tearing the continent apart. Their s ...

There are some weather phenomena that are more surprising than others, but without a doubt, the eruption of lava in ...

Meanwhile, China's green finance, often extended through concessional loans, plays a significant role in supporting ...

Goats, African buffalo, domestic buffalo, Asian monkeys, and humans are among the least susceptible, though they can still get Rift Valley fever and may not have any symptoms.

A massive rift that opened in northeast Ethiopia in 2005 shoved continental plates apart by 25 feet in a few days, achieving 400 years’ worth of separation that may help trigger the creation of ...

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 ...

Strange, never-before-seen movements in the East Africa Rift Valley appear to be driven by super-heated rock from deep beneath Earth's surface.

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A 35-mile-long crack, known as the East African Rift, is gradually tearing ...

Similarly in 2018, a massive crack emerged in Kenya's Great Rift Valley, disrupting transportation and highlighting the ongoing nature of the continental split.