A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

The separation stems from the East African Rift System, which is a 2,000-mile rift ... creating a giant rift valley right here. It keeps going. 'Eventually, Eastern Africa is going to become ...

Known as the East African Rift system, the crack extends over 3,500 kilometres (2,174 miles) from the Red Sea north to Mozambique in the southeast. It is a complex system of rifts, faults ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

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." The academic ...

"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 California, Santa ...

Solving issues to achieve optimum development of the Great Rift Valley’s unique geothermal systems Kenya is in the process of switching its main source of power from hydropower, which is unstable due ...

Signs of this dramatic shift lie in the East African Rift System (EARS), one of the largest ... Kenya’s Rift Valley Crack (2018) A massive crack, 50 feet deep and 65 feet wide, appeared ...

Earth once just had one continent known as Pangea that slowly broke apart to form the continents we know today.