President Donald Trump said he may skip the G-20 summit in South Africa later this year, saying he’s open to sending someone ...

The East African Rift System (EARS) is one of the most impressive geologic features on the planet—not to mention one of the most volcanically active and geothermally rich. Understanding what ...

Fresh cracks appear to be emerging within the coalition led by the African Democratic Congress, following a leaked memo from ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and ...

President Trump says he may skip the upcoming G20 leaders’ summit in South Africa, signalling a further deterioration in ...

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, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...

Beyond the rift zone directly beneath the lake, there are two active volcanoes within 15 miles. Lake Kivu’s eruption would be catastrophic.

The magma inside the volcano did not reach the surface and erupt as a fountain of lava – instead, it was diverted into the continental rift underground. The magma cooled into a wedge-shaped ...

Lake Kivu, one of the African Great Lakes, sits along a tectonic plate boundary called the East African Rift, which is dotted with hot springs that feed carbon dioxide and methane into the water.

Taiwan considering restrictions on semiconductor exports to South Africa in response to Pretoria’s recent move to downgrade ...