Billion Years Ago, a Rift Nearly Split North America in Two and It Left Behind a Mysterious Scar Around a billion years ago, ...

The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ...

What Is Rift Valley Fever? Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a disease animals can get when they're bitten by a mosquito carrying the Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV). Humans can get RVF if they're bitten ...

EARS is about 25 million years in the making and consists of two branches: The Eastern Rift Valley extends from Jordan to the coast of Mozambique. The Western Rift Valley, meanwhile, stretches ...

The Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley , a natural property of outstanding beauty, comprises three inter-linked relatively shallow lakes (Lake Bogoria, Lake Nakuru and Lake Elementaita) in the ...

Now we only have [salty] lake water.” Lake Bogoria, in the Kenyan Great Rift Valley, lies in a half-graben basin south of Lake Baringo, a few kilometres north of the equator. Kentyenya and her ...

Rwanda has been stepping up measures to combat Rift Valley Fever (RVF) following the country's second outbreak in two years, amid concerns it could spread to humans. The re-emergence of the ...