This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

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

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

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 ...

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania ...

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously thought. A 35-mile-long crack was discovered along a section of the East ...

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

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

‘There’s slippage and faults creating earthquake activity, along with visible signs of active volcanoes.’ The East African Rift ... along the rift, the rift valley will sink lower and ...