A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

But sometime in the very distant future, there may be a new guest: a sixth ocean. As a result of movement from the East ...

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

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

The birth of a new ocean is slowly emerging in the African continent Under Ethiopia’s desert, a radical transformation is taking place. In 2005, a gigantic 35-mile-long crack opened like a gash in the ...

This activity will ultimately generate a new ocean basin as the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden submerges the rift valley, and a separate landmass, including fragmentary pieces of Somalia, Kenya, ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

Africa is slowly tearing apart, and scientists are watching closely. The continent’s shifting plates could create a new ...

There is a 2 percent chance that seven years from now, “the city destroyer” will hit Earth with the force of an 8-megaton ...

Now, the settlement faces another major obstacle, critical to its long-term viability: the development of a commercial corridor between the two nations that allows Ethiopia access to ... Red Sea and ...

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ecosystem of the region, as well as the way humans live. In the geologic ...