Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

The site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, Chernobyl is still highly radioactive and considered one of the most dangerous places ...

Where is the hottest place on Earth? And why do you want to know? Surely, it’s not because you're looking to plan a trip ...

Somewhere out there, far away, is a ‘killer lake’. Surrounded by dead animals, it can cause you to choke on the air just by ...

The Danakil Depression, situated in a desert stretch approximately 200km long, holds the record for being the lowest point on earth, lying 100m below sea level - nearly twice that of Death Valley.

Ethiopia's Danakil Depression hosts some of the world's most intriguing and least-known traditional salt mines. For hundreds of years, these mines have served as the lifeblood of the Afar people ...

The most famous of the deep basins in Afar is the Danakil Depression, in the north of the Afar Triangle. The region lies more than 100 meters below sea level, and as low as 190 meter below sea at ...

An otherworldly landscape was formed in the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia, known for its striking geological features. Stunning footage by Dawit Arega shows shimmering salt flats, bubbling acid ...

Scientists have found 697 genetic variants – or small changes within a gene – linked to depression, of which almost 300 were previously unknown. A Queensland scientist described the project as ...

A massive trans-ancestry genome-wide association study (GWAS) looked at the genetic makeup of 688,808 individuals with depression and 4,364,225 people in the control group and identified ...

Virtually everyone has some experience with depression; however, the term “depression” has so many different meanings that confusion and invalidation often result when laypersons talk about ...