These pulses are reshaping the landscape, fueling volcanoes, and preparing the way for a new ocean to form. The research focuses on a region called Afar, located in northeastern Africa. It’s one of ...

A daring journey through Ethiopia’s Afar Desert leads to Erta Ale, one of only a few volcanoes with a permanent lava lake. For days, the explorer camps beside rivers of molten rock, breathing smoke ...

The Afar regional government says the numbers affected could rise ... The whereabouts of one community living close to the eruption is unknown. The Nabro volcano has sent the plumes of ash 13km (eight ...

Professor Tom Gernon sampling volcanic deposits at Boset Volcano in the Main Ethiopian Rift Looking out into the Main Ethiopian Rift, taken at Boset Volcano in Ethiopia ...

Beneath the African continent, powerful plumes of molten rock are slowly reshaping the land from below. Scientists studying this massive geological event have uncovered new clues about what lies below ...