In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as the East African Rift. Far from being a mere curiosity, this rift holds the ...

“The African continent is undergoing a slow, monumental split due to tectonic plate movements in the Afar Triangle. A new ...

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

The world's oceans have been traditionally split into four areas: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans. In recent times though, the Southern or Antarctic Ocean has been recognised as a ...

there’s the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans – mingling, reveling, occasionally roiling. But sometime in the very distant future, there may be a new guest: a sixth ocean.

“The resulting new supercontinent has already been named Amasia because some believe that the Pacific Ocean will close (as opposed to the Atlantic and Indian oceans) when America collides with Asia ...

As the Atlantic has grown, the Pacific has shrunk ... and that may well be the Indian, or even an ocean that may split Africa and Eurasia." Devika Rao has worked as a staff writer at The Week ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

In the 17th century, the Indian ocean slave trade was arguably on a bigger scale than the Atlantic slave trade. The hub of this vile industry was in modern-day Tanzania, an area that specialized ...

Longest mountain range, running through the Atlantic Ocean, separating the Eurasian and North American plates in the north, ...