Ethiopia

Fishermen on a water hyacinth-infested lake. Photo credit: Pradipta (Pixahive)

Articles, Biofuels, Nature & Environment, Sustainability November 18, 2025

Invasive Lake Weed Turned to Clean Energy in Ethiopia

By: Solomon Yimer For years, Fentie Wabi worked as a fisherman on Ethiopia’s Lake Tana, until an aggressive green invader changed everything. Water hyacinth, a…

Tigray village, Ethiopia, 2017. Photo credit: Rod Waddington (Wikimedia)

Articles, Energy Transition, Nature & Environment, Policy & Strategy, Sustainability June 9, 2025

An Effective and Impactful Project: Restoring Livelihoods in War-torn Tigray

A community rising from the ashes of conflict In the wake of the devastating two-year war that ravaged Ethiopia’s Tigray region from November 2020 to…

Articles, Last Exit October 7, 2018

Dallol

Dallol is a village located in the Danakil Desert, northern Ethiopia. Known as the hottest place year-round on Earth, Dallol holds the official record for…

The Lost Bayou: Grand Bayou

Grand Bayou, LA. At one time, it was a lively community of close-knit families, until they were forced to leave. ©2020. Garde Voir Ci magazine. Nicholls State University Department of Mass Communication.

World Rainforest Day

Rainforests cover only 2 percent of the planet’s surface area but are responsible for more than 25% of all Western medicine and house more than 50% of the world’s plant and animal species.