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

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

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 ...

A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, ...

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 ...