A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

The Turkana Rift (or East African Rift) in East Africa is famous for its human fossils and volcanic activity. But a recent ...

From the earliest hints of continental crust to the modern dance of tectonic plates, scientists are piecing together Earth's ...

The three earthquakes that struck off the North Island’s east coast were felt more widely because of the way they ruptured, ...

Ancient tectonic plates continue to reshape the Earth's interior and reveal a deep connection to its global dynamics ...

Australia’s famous Twelve Apostles didn’t just erode into existence—they were slowly pushed up from the ocean floor by ...

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

A vast new ocean stretching hundreds of miles could one day split Africa in two, scientists have warned, after discovering ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...