The explanations range from siltation and increased rainfall to the shifting of tectonic plates deep in the earth’s crust. “In around 1995, lake levels within the Rift Valley were at their ...

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

On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there continue to diverge, millions of years from now eastern Africa will split ...

This region is also home to two tectonic plates, the Somali and Nubian ... That Somali plate is continuing to move even further east, creating a giant rift valley right here. It keeps going.

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...

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