The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from ...

Esther and her family on her farm in Kenya ...

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Main entrance of Tatu city, a startup city that tries to tackle Africa's problem of urbanizing, is seen in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Hawaiian volcano erupts like a scene from Lord of the ...

There is a lake which is probably one of the most beautiful in the world, but it's also one of the deadliest. There’s no way ...

MANILA, Philippines — A 78-minute-long ash emission was observed from the crater of Kanlaon Volcano on Friday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

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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.

The Axial Seamount—a volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and a mile underwater—is slowly showing signs of an impending eruption. Although less well-known that other volcanic giants of ...

To fully understand the mechanism of their formation, scientists have devised an experiment with simple cooking ingredients not too dissimilar from the basic soda volcano you might have made in ...

HONOLULU (AP) — One of the world’s most active volcanoes is back in action. The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in ...