Africa is splitting in two, scientists say a new ocean is forming

Scientists are observing one of Earth's most dramatic long-term geological processes unfolding beneath eastern Africa, where ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

East Africa might break off from the continent sooner than scientists thought—and a new ocean may fill the gap

Around 250 million years ago, Earth’s modern-day landmasses were united in a supercontinent called Pangea. But the planet’s ...
USA Today

This continent is slowly splitting apart, creating a new ocean

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...
AOL

Africa is splitting—and Earth's sixth ocean is rising from below

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A 35-mile-long crack, known as the East African Rift, is gradually tearing through ...
People

One of Earth's Continents Is Splitting Apart and May Create a Whole New Ocean

The phenomenon has happened before and is due to an active continental rift zone Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...
Scientific American

Africa could split apart sooner than scientists thought

New research reveals that a rift in Earth’s crust is just a few million years away from splitting the continent of Africa into two—and creating a new ocean ...
Travel + Leisure

This Continent Is Splitting and Might Create a New Ocean on Earth

Katie Nadworny is an Istanbul-based writer who specializes in stories at the intersection of culture and politics in Turkey, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. She has lived in Turkey for nearly a ...