The East African Rift Valley sits between the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia and Mozambique. Within it lie a series of freshwater and alkaline lakes organised like a string of pearls. The Kenyan lakes in ...

Dickson Ngome's farm at Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley has been submerged due to rising water levels. Since 2011, the ...

Africa is gradually splitting in two. As with most geological processes, it unfolds at a glacial pace over millions of years, ...

Some 5,000 people were displaced by the rise in Lake Naivasha’s levels this year. Some scientists attribute the higher levels to increased rains caused by climate change, although there may be other ...

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, ...

Across East Africa, from Ethiopia’s coasts on the Red Sea down to Mozambique, a long line on the map shows where the continent is slowly tearing apart. This 3,000‑kilometer stretch is called the East ...

African rift tectonics and sedimentation : an introduction / H.G. Reading -- Geomorphology of the African Rift System / A.T. Grove -- Geophysical controls on sedimentation within the African rift ...

Strange, never-before-seen movements in the East Africa Rift Valley appear to be driven by super-heated rock from deep beneath Earth's surface. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

A new ocean could form in the distant future after a split continues to form in Africa, according to researchers. "This is the only place on Earth where you can study how a continental rift becomes an ...