"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

A massive crack in East Africa is growing fast. Scientists believe it could one day split the continent and form Earth’s ...

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish Africa’s size and, along with it, its place in the world. But a new ...

In a nutshell Scientists found that how fast continents pull apart affects how molten rock moves deep underground, ...

It has the power to change global maps, reshape political borders, and give rise to Earth’s sixth ocean. What may seem like a localized rift is, in fact, the start of something vast and world ...

Deep beneath Earth’s surface, hot mantle rock slowly rises, fueling massive volcanic activity, tearing continents apart, and ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

Earth to crack open, THESE countries will sink into water as chaos beneath ground increases due to…, scientists say… With the formation of this ocean, Africa's map will be redrawn, and its ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...