In 2017, scientists Eduardo Pérez and Yonas Chebude, from the Department of Chemistry at Addis Ababa University, published a study in which they revealed that the salinity of Gaet’ale Lake exceeded 43 ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. On Jan. 24, 2017, the Hyperion Imager on NASA's Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) spacecraft observed a new eruption at ...

Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, in a layer called the mantle, heat builds up and pulses, causing rock to slowly rise toward the crust. This movement is known as a mantle upwelling, and it plays a ...

Occurred on April 29, 2025 / Erta Ale, Ethiopia Info from Licensor: "We climbed up to the volcano at sunset and at dawn and these are two completely different pictures. At sunset it was seething, ...

On 15 July, a video of an explosive eruption of Erta Ale (Afar Region, Ethiopia) volcano was briefly discussed in the comment section. It was a small ash plume emerging from the summit of the ...

A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins. The plume’s chemical stripes act like a ...

Beneath the Afar region in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered pulsing waves of molten rock rising from deep within the Earth — a geological heartbeat that could eventually split Africa in two. These ...