The Red Sea is one of the youngest oceans in the world ... rare places where this process can be witnessed first hand. The rift is a narrow crack under the water which at some points is no more ...

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Known as the East African Rift, it stretches 3,500 kilometers from the Red Sea to Mozambique, according to the Geological Society of London. The East African Rift, extending from the Red Sea to ...

U.S. ships are returning to the Red Sea following promises from Yemen’s Houthi rebels to abstain from attacks on American and ...

A risky operation to salvage an oil tanker attacked by Houthi militants in the Red Sea and avert what could have been one of the largest oil spills in recorded history has been completed ...

This rift would then open the region to being flooded by the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, creating a new ocean. Geologists say the amount of time within which this transformation occurs is between 5 ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

Ocean’s Cradle As the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea flood the Rift Valley, an ocean will form, dramatically altering ecosystems, economies, and livelihoods in the region. Though spanning millions of ...