The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ...

Stock image of the Rift Valley in Ethiopia. The East African Rift formed 30 million ... from satellites to GPS receivers on land to measure plate movements and elevation changes.

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that East Africa is splitting faster than previously believed due to a fiery upwelling of ...

and the Nubian plate is also sometimes called the African plate.) The East African Rift started forming about 35 million years ago between Arabia and the Horn of Africa in the eastern part of the ...

The scientists warn that this ongoing tectonic activity could eventually cause the Somali plate and parts of East Africa, including parts of Kenya, to split from the rest of continent, raising the ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System ... the North American plate, which is sliding south ...

The East African Rift System ... Researcher Stephen Hicks attributes a significant crack in Kenya’s Rift Valley to soil erosion from recent rainfall, suggesting it may not be directly linked ...

The volcanic activity and tectonic splitting of the East African Rift Valley is probably driven by activity deep within the Earth, a new study reveals, starting where the core meets the mantle.

The Homa Peninsula, in Kenya, is part of the East African Rift Valley, a part of the world often called "the cradle of humankind." So many of the oldest clues about humanity's earliest days have ...