The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ...

Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

AFRICA is splitting apart – meaning the continent will form two separate land masses with an ocean in between in several ...

A massive African superplume appears to be driving the divide of one of the world's largest continents. Here's what we know.

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

Scientists' analysis of volcanic gases from Kenya have provided possible evidence of worrying activity beneath East Africa ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that East Africa is splitting faster than previously believed due to a fiery upwelling of ...

Stock image of the Rift Valley in Ethiopia. The East African Rift formed 30 million years ago. Stock image of the Rift Valley in Ethiopia. The East African Rift formed 30 million years ago.

The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden will flood the Afar region and the East African Rift Valley and become a new ocean, while the East African part will become a separate continent.

The East African Rift Valley sits between the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia and Mozambique. Within it lie a series of freshwater and alkaline lakes organised like a string of pearls. The Kenyan lakes ...

Mathew Herrnegger works for the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. He receives and has received funding from government-funded and research council grants. The East African ...