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

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

The Zagros Mountains, stretching over 1,500 kilometers from eastern Turkey to southeastern Iran towards the Gulf of Oman, are ...

Ocean Rift offers an educational VR experience of Earth's oceans as well as prehistoric seas. Beyond Blue provides a narrative adventure where players explore the ocean and interact with sea life.

The Trump administration has halted the participation of U.S. scientists in key U.N. climate change assessments, two sources ...

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

“This is the only place on Earth where you can study how continental rift becomes an oceanic rift,” Christopher Moore, a Ph.D. student at the University of Leeds, who uses satellite radar to ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continents gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in ...