This eerie abandoned ghost town lies in northern Ethiopia and has been described as a ghost town and is one of the most ...

Danakil Depression in Ethiopia, a top tourist spot, features extreme heat, acid pools, and toxic gases due to tectonic activity, hosting microbes in its hydrothermal pools and hot springs.

In September 2005 Afar herders in northern Ethiopia watched in amazement as ... East Africa's Afar depression is one of the world's most geologically hyperactive regions. Fly over it in an ...

were collected in Ethiopia by Major Powell-Cotton while hunting and exploring the country in 1899. Salt has been mined from the chain of salt lakes in the Danakil or Afar Depression for hundreds ...