Of these volcanoes, over 90 lie on the East African Rift Valley – the seam along which Africa is splitting ... The islands originate from the Pacific tectonic plate slowly moving across the top of a ...

The Afar region is home to The East African Rift Valley is a huge fault in the earth’s crust that stretches across Ethiopia and Kenya. In 2005, a 55-kilometer-long crack opened in the Ethiopian desert ...

In the scorching deserts of East Africa, the ground is slowly tearing itself apart — a slow-motion, geological drama. Over millions of years, the African continent will cleave in two, and scientists ...

Of these volcanoes, over 90 lie on the East African Rift Valley – the seam along which Africa is splitting apart.

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years - and they still are. Our new study reveals fresh evidence of rhythmic pulses of ...

She highlighted Africa's 180,000 terawatt-hours of annual offshore wind capacity, 340 gigawatts of hydropower potential, rich geothermal resources in the East African Rift Valley, and more than 50 ...

Most of the hotspots were around Lake Victoria and other lakes in the East African Rift Valley, which share a similar topography to Lake Maracaibo.

The highest point on Earth's surface is the top of Mount Everest, which towers more than 29,000 feet (8,800 meters) above sea level. But what's the lowest point on land? The lowest spot on dry land ...

It is no coincidence that our early ancestors evolved in Africa in the volcanic region of the East African Rift.