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 ...

*The United States is facing a growing shortage of rare earth minerals essential to its military operations, and Africa may ...

Sea levels along Africa’s coast are rising fast, driven by heat and stronger climate events, increasing risks for millions of ...

What impact can more intense heat waves have on Africa and its infrastructure? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as an international team of ...

For over three decades, satellites orbiting Earth have measured the height of the ocean surface with remarkable precision.

The research focuses on a region called Afar, located in northeastern Africa. It’s one of the only places on Earth where three giant cracks, or rifts, in the Earth’s surface meet. These rifts stretch ...