South African photographer Shem Compion remembers precisely when his love affair with the Great Rift Valley began. In 2002, in his twenties and in search of adventure, Compion saved what he could, ...

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 ...

A region known as the Kafue Rift could be the site of the world’s newest plate boundary, as the once stable African tectonic plate cracks up. Scientists exploring the rift have found evidence the ...

A rift in southern Africa once thought to be dormant has exhibited signs of becoming active, and could one day split the continent in two, new research suggests. The Kafue Rift is part of the ...