Scientists say they have evidence of a new continental rift forming in southern Africa that could eventually develop into a ...

Africa’s widening rift is thinning the crust and reshaping the land, helping preserve fossils that reveal new clues about human history.

A new study of hot springs in Zambia’s Kafue Rift has found helium and carbon isotope signatures in the region. These ...

Unusual helium signatures detected in Zambian hot springs may signal that a hidden tectonic rift is actively developing ...

Beneath the sun-scorched lowlands of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, the ground is quietly coming apart. New seismic ...

When magma moves into the rift zone of a Hawaiian volcano, there is understandably a lot of excitement and apprehension. How far will the magma go, and will it erupt? But even long after the activity ...

The proposed mathematical model can become the basis for creating artificial intelligence tools used in geology and ...

Scientists have discovered that the East African Rift System is undergoing a continental break-up at an accelerated pace. The Earth's crust in the Turkana Rift Zone has significantly thinned, ...