The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

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 ...

Often called ”Africa’s Eden,” the Ngorongoro Crater is one of Tanzania’s most spectacular attractions. A colossal collapsed volcano, whose walls enclose a lush, 100-square-mile ecosystem ...

Some volcanoes threatened populations with torrents of searing lava, as the African volcano Nyiragongo did in January, 2002. But most deaths resulted from secondary causes in the wake of an ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When? This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa; it's ...

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 3 (Reuters) - A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was showing signs of starting to erupt on Friday, prompting authorities to move residents to temporary shelters, a state ...

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania ...

A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition of magma could ...

African, and Antarctic plates. Though smaller in size, the minors are no less important when it comes to shaping the Earth. The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes ...