Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. In the north of Ethiopia, hours from any populated areas, is a vast expanse of brutal ...

Oslo, 30 November 2015: Liberty Metals & Mining Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance ("LMM") has acquired 25% of the shares in Yara Dallol B.V. ("Yara Dallol") for USD ...

Life exists in extreme environments on Earth, from arid deserts and frozen tundras to thermal, toxic vents in the deepest reaches of the ocean floor. But it can’t exist on every inch of the planet and ...

For the first time, scientists have found living microbes in the blistering hot springs of Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression. In a surreal landscape of colours, dominated by luminescent ponds of yellows ...

Cavalazzi admits that birds and small animals cannot survive in the area, because of the toxic gases near the ground that is carbon dioxide rich and poisons wildlife. Humans are not susceptible as ...

We haven't talked too much about volcanic activity in Africa lately, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening. I had a couple galleries of images come through my inbox in the last couple weeks that ...

Professor in Geobiology and Astrobiology at the Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences-BiGeA of the University of Bologna, Italy, and visiting lecturer at University of Johannesburg, South ...