"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

Scientists say Africa is slowly splitting in two due to molten rock pulses beneath Ethiopia, potentially forming a new ocean ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

A massive crack in East Africa is growing fast. Scientists believe it could one day split the continent and form Earth’s ...

Rhythmic pulsing deep beneath landlocked east Africa is literally tearing the continent apart. But while the effects won’t ...

Researchers in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift reported a deep, rhythmic mantle “pulse” that is slowly tearing Africa apart to form a ...

A new study has provided a major update on why Africa is being split into two. The rift has been happening gradually for ...

A quiet and slow-moving change is unfolding beneath the surface of East Africa– one that could, over millions of years, reshape not only the continent but the global map as we know it.

Tectonic plates shifting in Africa could one day cause a new ocean to form. The plates in northeast Africa are moving at a rate of .3 inches per year.

It has the power to change global maps, reshape political borders, and give rise to Earth’s sixth ocean. What may seem like a localized rift is, in fact, the start of something vast and world ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...