The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

Most of the Earth is covered by water. About 71 percent of the planet’s surface is ocean, while the rest is land made up of ...

Is Africa splitting and creating a new ocean and two new continents? This is what some scientists believe will happen in the future. According to the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters ...

Africa gradually pulled apart along the East African rift, a slow tectonic shift that could have formed a new ocean and ...

Scientists say Africa is gradually breaking apart along the East African Rift. The process is slow, but it could one day ...

An overhead view of the East African Rift, with a river in a cultivated valley flanked by steep cliffs A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression — ...

A large crack, stretching several kilometres, made a sudden appearance recently in south-western Kenya. The tear, which continues to grow, caused part of the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse.

A large crack, stretching several kilometres, made a sudden appearance recently in south-western Kenya. The tear, which continues to grow, caused part of the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse and was ...

It'll take tens of millions of years, but Africa may eventually split into two parts. While geologists have known about this possibility for a while, it became news recently when a large crack, ...

Africa is separating into two – and the split likely started tens of millions of years ago, according to a new study. By studying magnetic data, scientists at Keele University have discovered evidence ...

As East Africa’s great lakes shrink after thousands of years, scientists find the land beneath may be pulling apart faster, ...

Africa is slowly splitting in two, geologists have confirmed, a process that will eventually tear entire nations away from the continent and lead to the formation of a new ocean. According to a ...