A vast geological wound is slowly opening across East Africa, and it hints at a future in which the continent is no longer ...

Eastern Africa is being stretched as sections of the continent move apart along the East African Rift System. The process creates faults, valleys, earthquakes and volcanoes across thousands of miles.

A long, low basin in eastern Africa has spent millions of years collecting some of the most important clues to human origins. Now it is offering another kind of evidence, this time from far below the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Though East Africa used to be more of a savanna than a desert, it has dried out over the millennia. With less water in the lakes, especially Lake ...

Climate change is accelerating continental rifting, the geological process where landmasses slowly pull apart. According to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, the East African ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the vast deserts of Ethiopia, a remarkable phenomenon has been quietly unfolding since 2005—an extraordinary 35-mile-long crack ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The deep geothermal potential of East Africa is a huge, under-exploited resource that has so far failed to attract investors from the oil and gas world. The East Africa Rift System (EARS), with its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research finds East Africa's Turkana Rift is in a critical breakup phase that also may explain its rich fossil record.