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

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

The separation stems from the East African Rift System, which is a 2,000-mile rift that formed at least 22 million ... Most previous studies suggested that the extension is localized in narrow zones ...

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...

Where continents rift apart, new crust is formed from upwelling ... Case studies include both rifting on land, in east Africa and Iceland, and at the mid-ocean ridges that divide the oceanic ...

For decades, geologists have been closely monitoring developments in the East African Rift (EAR) system - a fissure, which stretches 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide along the deserts of ...

Series investigating the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift Valley and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes ...

The East African Rift is silently tearing the continent apart, paving the way for a new ocean and reshaping Earth's geography in real-time. A study by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology reveals ...

The East African Rift, stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, sets the stage for a new ocean. The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia ...