Inside the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia's Danakil desert, camel caravans are used to carry salt. For centuries, the essential mineral has been mined by the Afar people, known for their ability to ...

Thousands of years in the making, the Sonoran Desert's ancient pantry is finally getting its fine dining moment.

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.

Over the years in the desert of Afar state, near a great bend of the Awash River, discoveries of one species of near-human after another have revealed when ancestral creatures first left the trees to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. Researchers from ...

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 ...

In the Afar desert where she has lived the past 33 years, Australian nurse Valerie Browning is so beloved by the nomads she helps in hospital, they call her Maalika: “Queen of the Desert”. When Queen ...