The island nation is home to one of the most active volcanoes in the Atlantic Ocean, which rises 2,829 metres above sea level ...

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

Often called ”Africa’s Eden,” the Ngorongoro Crater is one of Tanzania’s most spectacular attractions. A colossal collapsed volcano, whose walls enclose a lush, 100-square-mile ecosystem ...

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously thought. A 35-mile-long crack was discovered along a section of the East ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ethiopia has around 50 active volcanoes. Most are in the Ethiopian Rift, the northern segment of the East African Rift System. An active volcano has magma stored deep within its crust that could ...

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania ...

Surrounded by majestic lakes and a range of dormant and active volcanoes with its rich and ... King Leopold seized a huge chunk of tropical Africa for himself and his family naming it with ...

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 of magma could ...

The earthquakes have also sparked fears of volcanic eruptions because they are happening near two active volcanoes, Fentale and Dofen. The Conversation Africa asked volcano researcher Amdemichael ...