Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While it is true that Africa is splitting apart and scientists currently believe a new ocean will eventually form as a result, ...

A vast geological wound is slowly opening across East Africa, and it hints at a future in which the continent is no longer whole. Along a fracture system that runs for thousands of kilometers, the ...

Earth's oceans, party of five. Sitting together at the salty dinner table that is the globe, there's the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans – mingling, reveling, occasionally ...

Ancient ocean sediments reveal that Africa’s open grasslands began forming millions of years earlier than previously thought, ...

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has officially launched the Africa Ocean Institute (AOI), a multidisciplinary platform ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...

This week, as the global ocean community gathers in Mombasa for the Our Ocean Conference, Africa has an important opportunity to help shape the next chapter of ocean action, not as a passive ...

Africa has an enormous ocean area at its disposal. There are almost 20 million square kilometers of ocean, seas and inland water that could be developed into environmentally sustainable blue economies ...

This Saturday, 9 December, is COP’s designated Ocean Action Day and will be a key opportunity to emphasise the critical role of the ocean in the face of a shifting geopolitical and economic landscape ...