Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

A swarm of earth tremors and fears of volcanic eruptions in January forced tens of thousands of people to move away from ...

A series of earthquakes in Ethiopia’s Afar region has sparked concerns over potential volcanic eruptions, displacing ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

Series investigating the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift Valley and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes ...

The property makes a critical contribution to the conservation of the natural values within the Great Rift Valley, as an integral part of the most important route of the African-Eurasian flyway system ...

Following the increasing release of methane gas in Awash Fentale over the past month, Tenaalem Ayenew, a geosciences professor at Addis Ababa University, has warned that this phenomenon "could trigger ...

Kenyans in several parts of the country should brace themselves for rains beginning on Sunday.In a forecast on Saturday, the Kenya Meteorological Department said the rainfall intensity will increase ...

On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there continue to diverge, millions of years from now eastern Africa will split ...

Africa is slowly tearing itself in two ... reminding us of the vast timescales of geological change. Kenya’s Rift Valley Crack (2018) A massive crack, 50 feet deep and 65 feet wide, appeared ...

Scientists see it as a fascinating natural laboratory that will culminate in a north-south continental split - and ultimately ...