Because of its remoteness, volcanic activity in the Danakil region often goes undocumented. Estimates suggest its last major ...

Discover some of the most interesting but strange natural wonders of the planet, from Blood Falls to Spotted Lake ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The Danakil Depression is the northern part of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia. The geological depression arose following the shifting of three tectonic plates in the Horn of Africa. The Danakil ...

One of the most extreme and inhospitable environments on Earth, Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, is giving scientists clues about how microbial life might survive on other planets. Boiling, oozing pools ...

We stumbled along in the darkness, the path a lighter gray amid the deep charcoal of the dried lava fields surrounding us. Up ahead was our goal, the dull, angry, red glow our own personal Mount Doom ...

A feasibility study on the Danakil project has confirmed significant potential to extract potash in the Danakil depression, in north-eastern Ethiopia. The independent study envisages 600 000 t/y of ...

To descend into the Danakil Depression is to step into another world. The thick warm air, the hazy sky and the rugged empty mountains that gradually give way to the immensity of a white, shimmering ...