Was Africa splitting apart? What would that mean for ... At some point, oceanic waters will flood in and create a new sea, effectively separating eastern Africa from the rest of the continent ...

The East African Rift System, a vast network of faults stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, is at the heart ... Creation of new coastlines and the splitting of the African continent.

Scientists have known for the past two decades that Africa has been splitting. In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called ...

A dramatic transformation is unfolding in Africa as tectonic forces split the continent. The East African Rift, stretching from Mozambique to the Red Sea, sets the stage for a new ocean.

The companies that operate large container ships say they plan to keep going around Africa as violence flares in the region.

But money to move and rebuild on the mainland could help him keep his head above water, even as the island is swallowed by the sea. Sign up to the Analysing Africa, a weekly newsletter that ...

But every now and again something dramatic happens and leads to renewed questions about the African continent splitting in two. The Earth’s lithosphere (formed by the crust and the upper part of ...

Thousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea’ in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean.

Researchers said that potato-sized nodules could be producing enough electrical current to split seawater into hydrogen ... about 2.7 billion years ago. "Deep-sea discovery calls into question ...

But every now and again something dramatic happens and leads to renewed questions about the African continent splitting in two. The Earth’s lithosphere (formed by the crust and the upper part of ...