South African photographer Shem Compion has spent more than 20 years documenting the extreme geography and diverse inhabitants of the Great Rift Valley.

"What's this 'Hartford Graben' thing? I've lived here all my life, and I have never heard of it, and I sure haven't seen it either," someone told me, or words to that effect, a while back. Well, not ...

The Great Rift Valley is the vast geographic depression that runs from the Jordan River Valley in Syria, South-western Asia to Mozambique in eastern Africa. The Great Rift Valley is the vast ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 10, 2024 shows the landscape of the Great Rift Valley in Kiambu county, Kenya. (Photo: Xinhua) Tourists are seen at a viewpoint of the Great Rift Valley in Kiambu ...

Africa’s Great Rift Valley stretches across 3,500 miles of territory from the shores of Eritrea to the red soil of Mozambique, and is recognized by scientists as the birthplace of humankind. All ...

The valley is the product of deep-seated geological forces which have spewed out a line of cloud-wreathed volcanoes stretching from Ethiopia to Tanzania. Their peaks provide a refuge for East Africa's ...

Marabou storks barely stirred on their treetop roosts as our safari truck rumbled out of Nairobi, the start of our journey tracing the eastern arm of Africa's Great Rift Valley through remote northern ...

New fossils from the outskirts of Nairobi reveal that Australopithecus afarensis lived far eastward beyond the Great Rift Valley, demonstrating how adaptable the early hominid species were to new ...