The world we live in is constantly changing - even the ground underneath our feet. Earth’s shell is made up of several large tectonic plates, which have been moving and splitting for billions of ...

Spanning an area of 50 hectares in the Great Rift Valley, between the extinct volcanoes of Mount Olorgesailie and Mount ...

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

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

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

Ethiopia is grappling with an escalating seismic crisis as a series of earthquakes linked to the East African Rift raises fears of a potential volcanic ...

The Afar region is home to the East African Rift Valley, a massive crack in the Earth’s surface that stretches through Ethiopia and Kenya. In 2005, a 35-mile-long fissure opened in the Ethiopian ...

Recent scientific discoveries reveal two extraordinary phenomena that could change our understanding of Earth's hydrology.

This included the disease name (Rift Valley Fever or RVF or Fièvre de la vallée du Rift or FVR), associated syndromes (e.g., hemorrhagic fever), and countries within the East African Community (Rwanda ...

A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. A webcam on Tuesday shows vigorous streams of red ...

A fountain of lava was spewing from a Hawaii volcano on Tuesday in the latest in a series of eruptions that have paused and resumed. Fountains from a vent of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big ...