The place is notoriously hostile to life, with puddles of acid and noxious gases ...

Dallol Hydrothermal Fields*, located in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression, is a place of extraordinary geothermal activity ...

Researchers studying the Dallol geothermal area in northern Ethiopia have recorded conditions so extreme that the site has become the primary Earth-based stand-in for alien worlds: temperatures ...

Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression pushes the crew through temperatures reaching up to 56°C, with no cold water and little escape ...

In Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression near Dallol, salt plains, rifting crust and vivid geothermal pools meet in one of Earth’s starkest landscapes. Flatlay-Reise-Arrangement rund um Danakil-Senke in ...

The first study of ultra-small bacteria living in the extreme environment of Ethiopia's Dallol hot springs shows that life can thrive in conditions similar to those thought to have been found on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Danakil Depression in Ethiopia’s Afar region, near Dallol, is a low-lying rift valley of salt flats, lava fields and hydrothermal colours that feels otherworldly. Fotorealistische Panoramaaufnahme von ...