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

As President Donald Trump's whims reverberate across the world, one particular Chicago group — globe and mapmakers — rise to meet the challenge.

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

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

By Gift Briton Global efforts for a Rift Valley fever (RVF) vaccine accelerate as South Africa’s Afrigen Biologics begins local development of mRNA vaccine.With no vaccine approved for human use yet, ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all have shuffled off our mortal coils by then, the effects Professor Macdonald ...

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

Full of emotional and deeply personal stories, the side content in these open-world games often outshines their main plots.

Jason Andrew for The New York Times The who’s who of Silicon Valley and Washington converged ... one of the richest people in the world, arrived minutes before the 5 p.m. party officially ...

A sweep by U.S. Border Patrol agents in California’s Central Valley on Thursday left immigrant communities in fear of what may be possible with the incoming Trump administration.Credit ...

With Trump’s insistence that Greenland is crucial for U.S. national security, he has made clear his desire to move forward with plans to bring the island into the U.S. fold. (Photo source ...

Alfred Wegener published his proposal that continents had moved. He presented various lines of evidence, of which the best remembered is the fact that the opposite shores of the Atlantic ...