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

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...

Mount Nyiragongo, located in the Virunga Mountains, is one of the most active volcanoes in Africa. It's known for its fast-moving lava flows and a persistent lava lake, one of the few in the world.

Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. Today, it's home to a tiny and extremely isolated farming community.

The type of lava erupted by Nyiragongo and many volcanoes in the East Rift zone of Africa, called alkaline lava, has an extremely low viscosity, making it almost as fluid as water. Alkaline lava ...

Some volcanoes threatened populations with torrents of searing lava, as the African volcano Nyiragongo did in January, 2002. But most deaths resulted from secondary causes in the wake of an ...

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 3 (Reuters) - A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was showing signs of starting to erupt on Friday, prompting authorities to move residents to temporary shelters, a state ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When? This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa; it's ...

Kilauea's volcanic activity on Wednesday marked the fifth episode since the latest eruption began in December 2024.

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...