Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Large gullies are swallowing entire houses, sometimes rapidly, in Africa. A new study suggests the gullies are linked to urbanization and will ...

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A 35-mile-long crack, known as the East African Rift, is gradually tearing through ...

This eerie satellite image shows a golden river of potentially toxic waste winding across the countryside after a deadly disaster at a diamond mine in South Africa. On Sept. 11, 2022, a dam at a ...

The research focuses on a region called Afar, located in northeastern Africa. It’s one of the only places on Earth where three giant cracks, or rifts, in the Earth’s surface meet. These rifts stretch ...

A plume of hot rocks that burst forth from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago helped forge a land bridge that connected Asia and Africa for the first time, allowing land animals such as the ...