National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

This rift would then open the region to being flooded by the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, creating a new ocean. Geologists say the amount of time within which this transformation occurs is between 5 ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

Somalia and Ethiopia announced on 11 January that they would restore full diplomatic relations following the president of Somalia‘s visit to Addis Ababa to heal a year-long rift that threatened ...

The East African Rift - a huge crack in the Earth’s surface - is at the centre of this activity, which stretches from Mozambique in the south to the Red Sea in the north. It represents the only ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

Some Canadian hockey fans are not pleased with their southern neighbours, with fans in Ottawa and Calgary showing their ...

From Japan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon.

The Afar triple point is of this type. Here, the tree arms are the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Ethiopian rift. Two of these have rifted far enough that the old continental crust has split and ...

The rift began when Ethiopia signed a controversial agreement with Somaliland, Somalia’s breakaway region, reportedly offering to recognise its independence in exchange for a Red Sea port and a ...