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

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

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all have shuffled off our mortal coils by then, the effects Professor Macdonald ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

Kamanzi highlighted the geological connection to Lake Albert in Uganda, part of the same rift valley that extends through ... Advanced machines will be deployed to map the lakebed in detail ...

The map of Pangea is projected based on simulations and ... When will this happen? The Rift Valley passes through the Horn of Africa. The Horn is divided into lowlands and highlands. This is not ...

Alfred Wegener published his proposal that continents had moved. He presented various lines of evidence, of which the best remembered is the fact that the opposite shores of the Atlantic ...

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...