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

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

The chemical striping suggests the plume is pulsing, like a heartbeat.” That is how Professor Tom Gernon of the University of ...

Researchers in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift reported a deep, rhythmic mantle “pulse” that is slowly tearing Africa apart to form a ...

Learn more about the pounding plume of molten rock that's beneath Ethiopia, forcing its three tectonic plates to separate.

Rhythmic pulsing deep beneath landlocked east Africa is literally tearing the continent apart. But while the effects won’t ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...

The earth shook below Zahab Mohammad’s feet while rocks began rolling down the foothills of the volcanic Mount Dofan, where she lived in Ethiopia’s northern Afar Region. After a 5.8-magnitude ...

A swarm of earth tremors and fears of volcanic eruptions in January forced tens of thousands of people to move away from Awash Fentale, an area in the Afar region of Ethiopia. The area falls ...

According to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), a multi-pronged assault on multiple towns and villages in the Afar region by Tigrayan forces that led to weeks of intense fighting ...