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

In the scorching deserts of East Africa, the ground is slowly tearing itself apart — a slow-motion, geological drama. Over ...

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

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

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

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

Speaking to DailyMail.co.uk, the academic said: "What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley." Professor Macdonald ...

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.

Africa is slowly splitting in two, geologists have confirmed, a process that will eventually tear entire nations away from the continent and lead to the formation of a new ocean. According to a ...

The Homa Peninsula, in Kenya, is part of the East African Rift Valley, a part of the world often called "the cradle of humankind." So many of the oldest clues about humanity's earliest days have ...

‘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 ...