The Afar Regional Tourism Bureau announced today that volcanic eruptions have occurred in four different locations in the ...

Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...

Beneath the Afar region's vast landscape in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered a powerful geological force that is ...

The group accused Ethiopia’s government of failing to properly investigate the deaths, which took place in the Tigray region.

International aid organization Doctors Without Borders has released a report describing the gunning-down of three staffers in Ethiopia’s Tigray region four years ago as an “intentional and targeted ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Beneath the Afar region in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered pulsing waves of molten rock rising from deep within the Earth — a geological heartbeat that could eventually split Africa in two ...

Tectonic action is splitting Africa apart to produce a new ocean, according to University of Southampton scientists who have investigated unusual pulses emanating from beneath the continent that are ...

A steady underground pulse has been discovered beneath East Africa, where researchers believe a new ocean is gradually forming. The rhythmic movement was found in the Afar region of Ethiopia, a ...

As suspected, the Afar mantle plume isn’t uniform or static. Microscope image of a thin sliver of one of the volcanic rocks from Afar, Ethiopia.

Active lava flows spilling out of the Erta Ale volcano in Afar, Ethiopia. Rhythmic pulsing deep beneath landlocked east Africa is literally tearing the continent apart.