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

New research suggests Earth may have six continents, not seven, with North America and Europe still connected.

However, deep below the surface of Africa, researchers have discovered that the forces deep beneath Africa are making the continent split apart ... formation of the Atlantic Ocean millions ...

Discover what the prehistoric world was like and how it changed between when dinosaurs ... This was the birth of the North Atlantic Ocean. At the end of the Triassic Period there was a mass extinction ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

While the current maps of the world ... that is split off from Africa. The ground has split open in places, and in a process that could take millions of years a new continent and ocean will ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

Take a walk on Ireland's wild side and discover a land where nature and culture combine to deliver maximum craic.

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The Himalayas, Earth's towering mountain range, stand as the product of a slow-motion geological collision between the Indian ...