DREW TOLD ME he was lightheaded, looking down in that focused way people do when they're about to faint. We were standing at the base of a volcano in northeastern Ethiopia —one that we were supposed ...

I peered over the craggy rim of Erta Ale, Ethiopia’s most active volcano, at the lava lake below. Beneath a gassy haze, boiling, ruby-red molten rock thickened and rose up, swelling like a tidal wave ...

I peered over the craggy rim of Erta Ale, Ethiopia’s most active volcano, at the lava lake below. Beneath a gassy haze, boiling, ruby-red, molten rock thickened and rose up, swelling like a tidal wave ...

Renowned photographer Carsten Peter joins a team of dedicated volcanologists at Ethiopia’s Erta’Ale volcano to photograph and collect samples from the world’s oldest active lava lake, while half a ...

Discover the unique Erta Ale volcano, a shield volcano in the Afar region of Ethiopia, famous for its long-lived lava lake. The lava lake in the crater of Erta Ale. Selected resources of Erta'Ale: ...

The United States Embassy in Ethiopia is asking tourists to reconsider travel to the active Erta Ale volcano where a German tourist was killed earlier this month. The volcano is a tourist destination ...

The latest in my Volcano Profiles series, this one on Erta Ale in Ethiopia. The lava lake in the crater of Erta Ale. Selected resources of Erta'Ale: Bizhourd, H., Barberi, F. and Varet, J., 1980, ...