A geological upheaval of unprecedented magnitude is underway in East Africa: the gradual birth of a new ocean. This ...

For years, Fentie Wabi worked as a fisherman on Ethiopia's Lake Tana, until an aggressive green invader changed everything.

The consequences of this tectonic ballet are already visible on the surface. In 2005, a sudden swarm of over 400 earthquakes in Ethiopia’s Afar region opened a staggering 37-mile-long fissure in just ...

Similarly in 2018, a massive crack emerged in Kenya's Great Rift Valley, disrupting transportation and highlighting the ongoing nature of the continental split. As the rift continues to widen ...

The resulting exhibition explores planetary repair through architecture, specifically along The Great Rift Valley, the geological formation that runs from Southern Turkey, through Lebanon ...

Eastern Africa, boasting a rich geological heritage, from the Great Rift Valley to ancient fossil sites, has vast geotourism potential. But its condition of geoheritage conservation and geotourism ...

Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa, is a rugged, landlocked country split by the Great Rift Valley. Ethiopia’s leader said Thursday that a contentious multi-billion-dollar mega-dam on the Blue Nile ...

The area falls within a geologically active region of the Great Rift Valley that has experienced a number of earthquakes and volcanic events in the last 800 years.

Wikimedia Commons The Great Rift Valley, a series of contiguous geographic depressions associated with the East African Rift. Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, ...

A European Union satellite was the first to detect methane in the region around Mount Fentale, an active volcano in the Great Rift valley about 120 kilometres east of Ethiopia’s largest city ...

News Susie Beever News Reporter 15:13, 24 Jan 2025 Panoramic view of Abidjatta-Shalla Lakes National Park in Ethiopia Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia (Image: Getty Images) ...

ADDIS ABABA — Evacuations were underway in Ethiopia Saturday after a series of earthquakes, the strongest of which, a 5.8-magnitude jolt, rocked the remote north of the Horn of Africa nation.