Geologists say the Great Rift Valley was formed by the Earth's tectonic plates pulling away from each other, about 30 million years ago. The process continues, they say, at about six mm per year, with ...

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Kenya Met revealed that the rains are expected to intensify in the second half of the month, with cases of flooding expected ...

In the late 1860s, the Cerro Gordo Mining District located high in the Inyo Mountains of eastern California began churning ...

The Dead Sea, located 430 meters below sea level, is a hypersaline lake known for its buoyant waters and mineral-rich mud but is rapidly shrinking.

A massive geological fracture running through East Africa is pulling the continent in two, and the process is moving faster ...

What could possibly be powerful enough to split an entire continent in two? Scientists may now have their most convincing answer yet. New research suggests that the East African Rift could be driven ...

Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us.

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Uncover 25 disturbing facts about our changing continents. Learn how Earth's restless geology reshapes our world, impacting ...

Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey made a breakthrough in understanding a decades-old geographical mystery by ...

Behind the deluge lies a web of global and local forces: from a warming Indian Ocean to the country's own topography.