The highlands of Ethiopia are home to the majority of the country's population, the cooler climate serving as a natural buffer against malaria transmission. New data now show that increasing ...

Khat (Catha edulis) is a rapidly expanding perennial crop in the Ethiopian highlands, and it is Ethiopia's second largest export item. The leaves of the crop are used for their stimulating effect. The ...

A farmer ploughs his sorghum field to plant again after early rains failed. (Image courtesy: Ben Zaitchik) Sorghum yields in the Ethiopian highlands could decrease as intense El Niño events become ...

Although past temperature variations in the tropics are of great importance to understanding the global climate system, little is known about their extent and chronological course. Researchers have ...

THIS PAST JANUARY, I drove from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to the country’s northern highlands with my mother and my cousin, a seasoned tour guide. I came to research locations where certain ...

Discover how lactase persistence exemplifies natural selection across human populations and the genetics of milk consumption adaptation. The persistent expression of lactase into adulthood in humans ...

The Bale Mountains in south-central Ethiopia are considered to be one of the most unique centers of endemism, with an extraordinary number of plants and animals that can only be found there. Numerous ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The birth of the Journal dates back in 1954 when Constantinos A. Doxiadis (1913-1975) and Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983) first met ...

It’s daybreak at 11,000 feet, and somewhere below, the monkeys are stirring. Admassu Getaneh marches past flowering herbs and thick grass along the edge of a plateau in the central Ethiopian Highlands ...

The slowdown in global warming that was observed at the end of last century was reflected by a decrease in malaria transmission in the Ethiopian highlands, according to a study led by the Barcelona ...

As the driver of global atmospheric and ocean circulation, the tropics play a central role in understanding past and future climate change. Both global climate simulations and worldwide ocean ...