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

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

A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

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 ...

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

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

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

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

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

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 ...

Scientists say Africa is slowly splitting in two due to molten rock pulses beneath Ethiopia, potentially forming a new ocean ...

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 ...