Since 2005, a 35-mile-long crack known as the East African Rift has been forming. In the scorching deserts of East Africa, ...

Scientists have discovered that the East African Rift System is undergoing a continental break-up at an accelerated pace. The ...

Beneath the sun-scorched lowlands of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, the ground is quietly coming apart. New seismic ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

The African continent will one day break in two, with a new ocean filling the void between the separation, scientists say.

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Though East Africa used to be more of a savanna than a desert, it has dried out over the millennia. With less water in the lakes, especially Lake ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Magnetic data collected in the late 1960s reveals how the ...

For several years, social media pages and accounts have claimed that a new ocean is forming in Africa. The claim has been spread by YouTube (archived) videos (archived) with views in the millions, ...

Rifting in East Africa and large-scale tectonic processes / E.R. Oxburgh -- Structural development of the East African Rift System / R.M. Shackleton -- Structural volcanic evolution of the Gregory ...