Several airlines in India have been forced to cancel flights because of dangerous volcanic ash in the air.

Sitting on the top of the world, the Simien mountains – Ethiopia’s highest peaks – are home to some of the country’s most remote communities and some of its rarest wildlife. Simien Mountain National ...

A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia erupted for the first time in almost 12,000 years in November 2025, but a dramatic video ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May 2018), pp. 143-152 (10 pages) A study of vascular plant species composition, relative abundance, distribution, and anthropogenic threats to these ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 37, No. 3, Focus Issue: Mountain Forests and the SDGs (August 2017), pp. 254-262 (9 pages) Forests play an important role in the provision of food and ...

My new companion on the mountain ledge emitted a croak and hopped a little closer. A momentary standoff followed as I contemplated a beak like bolt-cutters and talons the size of butcher's hooks. The ...

A new species of puddle frog (order: Anura, family: Phynobatrachidae, genus: Phrynobatrachus), has just been discovered at the unexplored and isolated Bibita Mountain in southwestern Ethiopia. The ...

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