From space, Africa looks solid and immovable. On the ground, it is a different story. Along a scar known as the East African Rift System, the continent is literally pulling apart, and new research ...

A massive geological rift is tearing one of Earth’s largest continents in two, faster than scientists once believed.

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

Salameh, E. and Tarawneh, A. (2026) Tectonic Structures and Their Consequential Nontectonic Deformations —The Case of the ...

Learn more about how Earth’s crust unzipped beneath the Atlantic Ocean, creating a giant underwater canyon.

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

Africa is slowly splitting along the East African Rift, forming a new ocean over millions of years The Somalian Plate is separating from the Nubian Plate at a few millimeters per year The Afar Triple ...

Africa is breaking apart along a giant crack that will form a new ocean between two large masses of land millions of years from now, the latest research shows. The split is taking place along the East ...

The land in East Africa is slowly tearing itself apart, a continental fracture that will eventually open a new ocean basin.

Most people grew up with a simple world map in school where Africa is one solid block of land. Now scientists say that picture is slowly going out of date. According to work highlighted by National ...

Scientists revealed that Africa was slowly splitting along the East African Rift, where two massive tectonic plates were drifting apart beneath the surface The movement was incredibly slow, but over ...