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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When the furnace wind blows across the stony Afar desert of northern Ethiopia, and the mercury hits 50 degrees, not everyone sees beauty ...

2006-02-21 04:00:00 PDT Afar, Ethiopia-- In the burning heat of Ethiopia's rock-strewn desert, where only herds of goats and camels pass along the horizon, a team of fossil-hunters searched the ground ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast that could be the "birth of a new ocean basin," scientists said Friday.

Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast that could be the "birth of a new ocean basin," scientists said. Researchers from Britain, ...

A San Francisco anthropologist and his international research team report to have found evidence in the harsh Ethiopian desert that human ancestors used stone tools to cut and smash animal bones for ...

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 ...

BERAHILE, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Like his father, grandfather and generations before them, Berhe Amare has spent his life walking camels along treacherous caravan routes from Ethiopia's Afar desert to ...

Justin DeShields (left) and Bryan Morales, shown near of the Santo Tomas Valley, are venturing north to south down the Baja California peninsula. The Californians have gone about one-third of the way ...

At least 12 European tourists were kidnapped by suspected separatist rebels in a remote desert region of Ethiopia, diplomats in Addis Ababa said Friday. Two groups of foreign trekkers — between seven ...