Scientists have discovered a vast, interconnected network of magma sills, stretching over 100 kilometers beneath Africa's ...

Deep within the Earth’s mantle, rhythmic pulses of hot lava are emerging on the surface, offering a rare glimpse into the forces driving the creation of a new ocean. These pulses, coming from a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Magnetic data collected in the late 1960s reveals how the ...

Over the course of a couple days in September 2005—amidst a flurry of volcanic eruptions and hundreds of earthquakes—the ground in northeast Ethiopia split wide open. For millions of years, a bubble ...

The documentary follows the journey of a camel caravan to the salt plains of the Afar Depression. Traditionally the caravans moved from Afar Depression to other parts of Ethiopia and to the Red Sea ...

Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the fictionalized end of the world onto the big screen. Fortunately, the scientific logic for many such ...

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