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

The crust beneath part of Kenya and Ethiopia is thinner than geologists thought, new measurements have found. That has ...

Scientists have discovered a huge tectonic boundary under Africa, running from Mozambique to Tanzania.

Deep beneath Africa, a massive flow of hot mantle rock appears to be quietly reshaping the continent in ways scientists did not fully expect.

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 ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Magnetic data collected in the late 1960s reveals how the ...