An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was like a scene conjured by a Hollywood special effects shop. In September 2005 Afar herders in northern Ethiopia ...