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

A geological upheaval of unprecedented magnitude is underway in East Africa: the gradual birth of a new ocean. This ...

The animators of Disney’s The Lion King traveled to a park with dramatic landscapes in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley to get a feel for, as Mufasa puts it, the great circle of life. When visitors ...

A mysterious pulse beneath Africa's surface is reshaping the continent in ways that could change the world. Deep within the ...

East Africa is quietly transforming in ways most couldn't imagine. Deep beneath the surface, tectonic forces are reshaping the continent at an unprecedented speed. A massive rift is slowly carving a ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Scientists have discovered a pulsating magma plume beneath Africa’s Afar region, slowly splitting the continent. This Rift ...

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

Rhythmic pulsing deep beneath landlocked east Africa is literally tearing the continent apart. But while the effects won’t arrive on the planet’s surface for a while, the end result is an entirely new ...

The Afar region is a rare place on Earth where three tectonic rifts meet - the Main Ethiopian Rift, the Red Sea Rift, and the ...

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