Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. At this moment in ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

As China and Russia gain ground in Africa, the U.S. policy should distance itself from its unpopular European partners.

this series investigates the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift, and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes. The valley is the product of deep-seated ...

The African and Somali plates diverge at 0.8 cm annually, forming a 60-km-long rift in Ethiopia, up to 10 meters deep—marking the early stages of an ocean basin. The East African Rift mimics the ...

Africa is slowly tearing itself ... the vast timescales of geological change. Kenya’s Rift Valley Crack (2018) A massive crack, 50 feet deep and 65 feet wide, appeared in Kenya’s Rift ...

At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle rises ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart.

What unfolded in Fentale in 2025 is part of an ongoing process millions of years in the making, deep under the ... new ocean—along the great East African Rift Valley. Gemechu Bedassa Teferi ...