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Along a stretch of scorched desert in Ethiopia, the ground quietly opened one afternoon in 2005. A gash nearly 35 miles (56.33 km) long split the earth wide, as if the land had simply decided to give ...

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Chief Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division and Professor of Climate Science, Australian National University Nerilie Abram received funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Ariaan Purich ...

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Since 2005, a 35-mile-long crack known as the East African Rift has been forming. In the scorching deserts of East Africa, the ground is slowly tearing itself apart — a slow-motion, geological drama.