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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Redwan Mohammed leads a project to restore Ethiopia’s Ziway-Shalla river basin, which is under pressure due to deforestation and erosion.

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 ...

Semitic Christian churches and monastic communities on the islands in Lake Zway (the northernmost Rift Valley lake) probably date to the twelfth or thirteenth century. Being on the southern fringes of ...

Lake Dembel, a vast lake in central Ethiopia which provides for wildlife and thousands of people, is being pumped dry, environmentalists say. The pumps irrigate farms all around the lake. "If things ...