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 ...

In 2017, astronomers on board the International Space Station photographed two eerie islands in Ethiopia. Dek and Daga lie in Lake Tana, whose copper-tinted waters have been important geographically ...

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 ...

Machines stand on the construction site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Guba, northwestern Ethiopia. (Gioia Forster / AP) Around Ethiopia’s Lake Abijatta the ground crunches beneath you, and ...

Lake Tana is Ethiopia’s largest lake, and feeds the Blue Nile. At several points where tributaries flow into the lake, invasive water hyacinth is soaking up water and choking the shoreline. A 2012 ...