Section of Nyaru-Fluorspar Road cut off by earth cracks and mudslides in Keiyo South, Elgeyo Marakwet County. May 26, 2025. [Stephen Rutto, Standard] An earth crack has sparked fears of landslides ...

Volcanic eruptions can destroy essential infrastructure, ground air traffic for days, wipe out entire cities, disrupt the climate for years, and even wipe out life on Earth, so it's important to know ...

It’s one of the only places on Earth where three giant cracks, or rifts, in the Earth’s surface meet. These rifts stretch across Ethiopia and beyond, and over time, they are splitting the land apart.

Gigantic trenches known as gullies are opening up in cities in Africa, swallowing up homes and businesses, sometimes in an instant, a study has found 1. About 118,600 people, on average, in the ...