The north of Africa shares a boundary with Asia. Africa is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east ... Sand dunes in the Sahara desert in Africa. The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest ...

In September-October 2005, a dramatic geological event unfolded in the Ethiopian Desert, as more than ... (ref) Slow Birth of a New Ocean in East Africa Through this rift, a new ocean could ...

Desertification in parts of southern Africa contributes to the green color of waters in the Indian Ocean, new research ...

In East Africa's dry Afar region, the meeting point of three tectonic plates had been ... of a new ocean. One visible sign of this phenomenon was the 35-mile crack in Ethiopia's desert.

Analysis - Scientists have found new evidence that desertification, potentially linked to global warming, leads to large amounts of nutrient-rich dust landing in the sea, causing ocean algae to grow ...

It is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa and takes its name from the Namib, considered the oldest desert in the world and famed for its giant sand dunes. The desert runs along the 1,500 ...

Africa Live: Updates on this and ... were found in the Sahara Desert near Niger's border with Algeria. It appeared they had died of thirst after being abandoned by their smuggler, a government ...

Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the Earth's land area, and they are found on every ...

Gittings and an international group of researchers have found an example of this phenomenon in the Indian Ocean ... had originated from the east coast of Madagascar and the south-east Africa ...