The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift ...

The Great Rift Valley stretches roughly 4,000 miles across Africa, where deep tectonic forces are slowly pulling the continent apart. Beneath about 120 million people, the Nubian and Somali plates are ...

Helium gases from deep inside Earth were found in Zambia’s hot springs. This proves the Kafue Rift may be forming a new plate ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Though East Africa used to be more of a savanna than a desert, it has dried out over the millennia. With less water in the lakes, especially Lake ...

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Magnetic data collected in the late 1960s reveals how the ...

It could have literally earth-shaking implications for the (very) long-term future of the continent.

For several years, social media pages and accounts have claimed that a new ocean is forming in Africa. The claim has been spread by YouTube (archived) videos (archived) with views in the millions, ...