A massive geological fracture running through East Africa is pulling the continent in two, and the process is moving faster ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: 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 ...

A massive geological rift is slowly tearing East Africa apart, stretching from Djibouti to Mozambique. This growing crack marks the boundary where tectonic plates are pulling away, potentially forming ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An overhead view of the East African Rift, with a river in a cultivated valley flanked by steep cliffs An overhead view of the ...

Rifting in East Africa and large-scale tectonic processes / E.R. Oxburgh -- Structural development of the East African Rift System / R.M. Shackleton -- Structural volcanic evolution of the Gregory ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Geothermal being so lucrative in the region has some positive side effects for scientists studying the ever-fascinating EARS. Because companies do so much ...