Nov222017
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Photos: Mars on Earth: The beauty of Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression and Alien Life
By Chris Giles| CNN Story highlights The Danakil Depression is one of the world’s harshest environments New research carried out there could help us understand life on Mars Photos: Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression is a window into another world Danakil Depression … read more
NASA: Africa from Space as you’ve never seen it before
Quartz The magnificent Nile at night in 2015. (NASA/Johnson Space Center) BY Jackie Bischof Quartz Africa It can often be challenging to find alternative viewpoints of Africa. Perceptions of the continent are so colored by decades of stereotyped coverage and biased academic … read more
NASA AI auto-captured the changes in famous Ethiopian Volcano Erta Ale
The AI system ordered its host satellite to monitor an exploding volcano before anybody asked. By Mariella Moon, @mariella_moon Engadget guenterguni via Getty Images Artificial intelligence can help satellites and other spacecraft observe interesting phenomena before humans even spot them. Case in … read more
The Most Beautiful Library in Each US State
By Chris Weller jiawangkun/Shutterstock.com Libraries are a timeless treasure. Even as ereaders make paper books less necessary, people still crave a physical space to surround ourselves with knowledge. When done right, those spaces can be works of art. To find the … read more
Who is Lucy the Australopithecus?
Independent Lucy has been honored with a Google Doodle on the 41st anniversary of her discover A sculptor’s rendering of Lucy when she was alive, displayed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas Dave Einsel/Getty Images The 41st anniversary of … read more
The Best of Ethiopia
Telegraph Home to some of the continent’s most traditiIn a gorgeous region of forest and rolling uplands, of alpine lakes and fortress-like escarpments, Bale Mountains National Park is teeming with rare wildlife, including the endemic Ethiopian wolf High-end luxury has … read more
Ethiopia’s Erta Ale: The Gateway To Hell
By MICHAEL GADD FOR MAILONLINE If we must imagine the fiery depths of hell, the mental image can’t be far from these incredible images by Karel Tupy of Ethiopia’s Erta Ale, the world’s oldest continuously active lava lake. Photographer Tupy, … read more
Ethiopia’s ‘Iron Lion Zion’ Cats Fading Fast
By Karim Lebhour, PHYS Conservationists estimate there are, at most, 1,000 lions left in the wild in Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous nation Ethiopia’s black-maned lions once represented a former emperor, “Lion of Judah” Haile Selassie, and were immortalised in a … read more
Ethiopian Shade Coffee Is World’s Most Bird Friendly
A new study found high biodiversity on traditional coffee farms. Ethiopian coffee farmer Awol Abagojam and his son Isaac harvest their product near the village of Choche, much the same way their ancestors did a thousand years ago. PHOTOGRAPH BY … read more