Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

“The African continent is undergoing a slow, monumental split due to tectonic plate movements in the Afar Triangle. A new ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

The Somali plate is moving away from the Nubian plate, pulling apart the crust of the Earth. This activity will ultimately generate a new ocean basin as the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden submerges the ...

A current system in the Atlantic Ocean that's crucial for regulating the world's weather and ecosystems might be more stable ...

But sometime in the very distant future, there may be a new guest: a sixth ocean. As a result of movement from the East African Rift, an active tectonic plate running through multiple countries ...