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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Turkana’s clear waters emerge like a glassy screen, breaking through the rugged rocks and dry earth that precede its approach. This most northerly of Kenya’s lakes, on the border with Ethiopia, ...

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 ...

Dr Solomon Kibret is a member of the Global Coalition for Lake Tana Restoration, a not-for-profit group supporting environmental and watershed management activities to restore Lake Tana's ecosystem in ...

The pumps irrigate farms all around the lake, which is four times the size of Manhattan, and are vital for hundreds of thousands of people. Ethiopia has already lost at least one large lake -- ...