A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

revealing how deep tectonic movements can influence mountains, basins, and seismic activity at the surface. The collision between the Arabian and Eurasian plates has been ongoing for tens of ...

Iraq is sinking. Or, to be exact, the region surrounding the Zagros Mountains in the country’s north is. A team of ...

The Zagros Mountains, stretching over 1,500 kilometers from eastern Turkey to southeastern Iran towards the Gulf of Oman, are ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

Africa is undergoing a gradual geological transformation, with tectonic forces slowly pulling the continent apart. This ...

A similar process created the nearby Saudi Arabian peninsula, according to scientists. Scientists using GPS and satellite mapping to track how the tectonic plates underlying Africa are separating ...

This continent may be dividing in two, according to a startling finding on the map of Earth. Africa is expected to split but only within millions of years.

The Pangean-era structure "It's being torn apart in real time" keeps the planet on edge. The ocean plate is now being torn ...

The Zagros Mountain range runs along the border of the Eurasian and Arabian tectonic plates.Image: Matyas/Pond5 Images/IMAGO Research results can be used for earthquake prediction. The findings ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...