A massive crack in East Africa is growing fast. Scientists believe it could one day split the continent and form Earth’s ...

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

A 35-mile-long crack, known as the East African Rift, is gradually tearing through the landscape—marking the early stages of a colossal geological shift. Africa is splitting—and Earth's sixth ...

A NEW ocean is forming beneath Ethiopia as a “heartbeat”-like pulse deep below the Earth’s surface splits the African ...

A group of researchers from across the world has found that a steady, rhythmic pulse deep beneath Ethiopia’s Afar region, ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

In the Afar region of Ethiopia, the ground beneath our feet is stretching and tearing at a rate of 16 millimeters per year ...

Though no one currently on Earth (or even their great-great-great grandchildren) will live to see it, one day, the African continent could be cut in half and separated by a new body of water. The ...

A massive geological transformation is taking place in East Africa, where a hidden force beneath the Earth's surface is slowly tearing the continent apart. The process stems from the East African ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

This isn’t just another crack in the earth. It has the power to change global maps, reshape political borders, and give rise to Earth’s sixth ocean.What may seem like a localized rift is, in ...