With a history stretching back over 11,000 years, this city ranks among the oldest continuously inhabited in the world. It ...

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 ...

These lakes are found on the floor of the Great Rift Valley where major tectonic and/or volcanic events have shaped a distinctive landscape. Some of the world's greatest diversities and concentrations ...

and in the Western Rift Valley between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This study “provid[es] the first geochemical evidence for a common deep mantle beneath the entirety of the ...

Scientists have confirmed that Africa is beginning to split into two separate continents due to tectonic activity along the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers Rift Valley fever as one of the eight diseases that pose the greatest public health risk of becoming an epidemic. This helps the organization ...

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 ...

1 The World Health Organization (WHO ... An Integrated Response to Rift Valley Fever Virus. The first component of an integrated approach is community engagement. The response to RVFV should ...

Boasting destinations such as the Mount Wuling Great Rift Valley and Baiheliang, the world's oldest hydrological station, Fuling district is also rich with cultural and natural heritage sites.

“They can envision a world where it is possible to disrupt and prevent the devastating health and economic consequences of diseases like Rift Valley fever. We’re honored to partner with them on this ...