A Deep Engine Behind Surface Change The Afar region gives scientists a rare window into how continents break apart. Over millions of years, as the rifts grow, they stretch and thin the land like warm ...

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Continents aren't torn apart without warning, and oceans certainly aren't created out of the blue. Instead, these changes are announced millions of years before they're actually achieved, by the ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.

Active lava flows spilling out of the Erta Ale volcano in Afar, Ethiopia. (Derek Keir/University of Southampton/University of Florence) (CN) — Millions of years ...

Africa is slowly changing in front of our eyes, although we can’t see it directly. Scientists have discovered the continent is splitting in two parts, and ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has received a $15 million grant from the Fund for Science and Technology (FFST). This support will expand observational ...

Scientists warn that a crack in Africa could create giant mountains in the future that could surpass the Himalayas.

A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.

A massive canyon hidden beneath the Atlantic Ocean has long baffled geologists. Scientists now believe they may finally understand what helped create it, and this findings help clarify how one of the ...