It might look like a distant planet from Star Wars, but this pretty country where temperatures are the hottest on Earth reaching up to 49C is actually a real place. Ethiopia is home to the Danakil ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Danakil Depression experiences extreme temperatures. It is not often that you will find people willingly embarking on dangerous travel escapades. Only those driven by thrill and seeking wild ...

It looks like the set from a 1950s scifi flick, but this toxic, funhouse-colored hot spring isn’t humanity’s first deadly encounter with alien biology. Although it is home to some very strange life ...

THE kidnap of a group of five Europeans (three Britons, a British-Italian woman and a French woman), along with a dozen Ethiopian guides and helpers, has highlighted one of the harshest parts of ...

THERE’S nowhere else quite like it on Earth. More like hell, say the very few who’ve made it there. So perhaps it deserves its nickname: Devil’s Kitchen. The heat is intolerable and there is no ...