Few places on the planet look less like Earth than the Danakil Depression, a scorched, sunken stretch of northeastern ...

It's been called one of the most alien places on earth — a "gateway to hell" and, in the words of British explorer Wilfred Thesiger, a veritable "land of death." The sulfurous hot springs, acid pools, ...

Welcome to one of the most hostile environments on Earth, a place so extreme that it looks like it's being pulled apart at the seams. The temperatures here regularly soar above 125°F, making it one of ...

At the juncture of three tectonic plates in northeastern Ethiopia is an other-worldly and sunken plain. The heat quivers here. Rock formations are colored by minerals in oozing volcanic psychedelia.

The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is one of the most extreme regions on the planet. Known for its intense heat, boiling acid pools, erupting volcanoes, vivid colours and active geological processes, ...

For the first time, scientists have found living microbes in the blistering hot springs of Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression. In a surreal landscape of colours, dominated by luminescent ponds of yellows ...