There is a constant hum around Ethiopia's enormous Lake Dembel—the sound of its water steadily being sucked out by pumps. The pumps irrigate farms all around the lake, which is four times the size of ...

Discover the world’s most saline lake, Gaet’ale Pond in Ethiopia, with over 43% salt concentration, surpassing even the Dead ...

Machines stand on the construction site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Guba, northwestern Ethiopia. (Gioia Forster / AP) Around Ethiopia’s Lake Abijatta the ground crunches beneath you, and ...

Reminiscent of an artist’s pallet, this striking false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission features Lake Abbe in northeast Ethiopia. Visible as the large round dark area, Lake ...

The vastness of the building site was at first overwhelming for the young Ethiopian mechanical engineer. Hundreds were ...

Ethiopia has already lost at least one large lake -- Haramaya, in the east of the country -- to over-pumping. Now it risks losing another. Lake Dembel's depth has halved since 1990 from four metres to ...