"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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The Afar junction is the point at which the Arabian, Nubian, and Somalian plates meet, each departing in their own directions to leave a widening gap under the Afar Triangle. Eventually, the crust ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...