The land in East Africa is slowly tearing itself apart, a continental fracture that will eventually open a new ocean basin.

Island’s mineral and resource wealth is result of mountain building, rifting and volcanic activity over 4bn years ...

Madagascar's landscape tells a story of deep time: ancient rifting and geological tilting sculpted the island's dramatic topography and steered its rivers, setting the stage for the evolution of its ...

Using an automated method to create a high-resolution map of the seismic velocity below the seafloor, researchers found a large-scale gas reservoir in an area where the Earth's upper layers are being ...

The mystery of how continents break up could be solved with clues from the rifting earth of Ethiopia, researchers find. Since the 1960s, scientists have known that over the course of millions of years ...

Lava flows from the 2005 Mando Hararo eruption in Ethiopia. Alright, I had been attempting to ignore this story because it was, well, a little uninteresting at first, but it apparently has legs so I ...