The East African Rift may be drifting apart quicker than expected, one geologist warned. The rift is a massive 20-plus-million-year-old continental crack in the Earth's surface stretching across ...

Africa will divide in two, creating a new ocean in real time. Scientists say a sixth ocean is forming as East Africa splits ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift ... Then, in 2018, another crack appeared in Kenya along the rift. From our morning news ...

Kenya’s Rift Valley Crack (2018 ... The splitting of Africa isn’t an isolated event; continents have drifted apart and re-merged at least three times throughout Earth’s history.

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

The East African Rift System (EARS) was initially identified in 2005, with its origins dating back around 22 million years, according to earth.com. The East African Rift results from the movement ...

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 ...

The AHP was a direct result of African monsoonal climate responses to periodic variations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun that recur roughly every 20,000 years. Impressively, the AHP is just ...