Living above a magma chamber is not without its hazards, and yet the Afar have done so for generations. Nomadic people from Djibouti, they have made the unforgiving landscapes at the northern reaches ...

To those who live there, east Africa’s Afar region is “the place the devil plows.” One of the hottest and lowest areas on Earth, it is a landscape of baking desert and barren lava flows. To scientists ...