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

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

A segment of eastern Africa is “primed” to peel away from the rest of the continent far sooner than scientists had previously ...

Deep beneath Africa, a massive flow of hot mantle rock appears to be quietly reshaping the continent in ways scientists did not fully expect.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shot of the Main Ethiopian Rift, taken at Boset Volcano in Ethiopia. - Courtesy Prof. Thomas Gernon/University of Southampton ...

New research shows the Turkana Rift in eastern Africa has a much thinner crust than previously recognized, indicating it is further along in the continental rifting process. Scientists say this region ...

Recent seismic research has unveiled a fascinating geological phenomenon occurring beneath the Pacific Northwest. The Earth’s crust is tearing apart, a process driven by tectonic forces in the region.

The Red Sea is parting again, but this time Moses doesn’t have a hand in it. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Satellite images show ...

Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the fictionalized end of the world onto the big screen. Fortunately, the scientific logic for many such ...