On November 23, 2025, the Hayli Gubbi volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted in dramatic fashion. The shield volcano in the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Ethiopia is in the midst of a gold, oil, mineral and gemstone rush. More than 250 companies are currently scouring the territory hoping to strike it rich. We started our exploration in mining at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending ash plumes across the Red Sea toward Yemen, Oman, and India, while threatening livestock and aviation.