In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving ...

The bold question-askers at What If forecast the distant future of Earth’s continents and whether they might sink into the ...

Beneath the Afar region in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered pulsing waves of molten rock rising from deep within the ...

These results suggest the existence of a process recycling marine carbon into Earth's mantle, which could contribute to ...

Research led by Earth scientists at the University of Southampton has uncovered evidence of rhythmic surges of molten mantle ...

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

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.

By examining squid skin cells three-dimensionally, a University of California, Irvine–led team has unveiled the structures ...

Rhythmic pulsing deep beneath landlocked east Africa is literally tearing the continent apart. But while the effects won’t arrive on the planet’s surface for a while, the end result is an entirely new ...

The huge column of hot rock, known as a mantle plume or a 'ghost plume', which rises from deep inside the earth beneath ...

A research team found evidence that a plume of hot mantle and tectonic plates generate activity deep beneath the Afar region in Ethiopia, which will one day tear apart the African continent and create ...