The transition from the African Humid Period (AHP) to dry conditions in North Africa is the clearest example of climate tipping points in recent geological history. They occur when small perturbations ...

The British Oil company that is prospecting for oil in Southern Ethiopia, Tullow Oil, is to start mobilization to Chew Bair basin at the end of this month. Tullow's drilling expedition drilled two ...

An international research team led by Professor Dr Frank Schäbitz has published a climate reconstruction of the last 200,000 years for Ethiopia. This means that high-resolution data are now available ...

Tipping points in the climate system can be the result of a slow but linear development. However, they can also be accompanied by a “flickering", with two stable climatic states that alternate before ...

Tullow Oil has announced that the Gardim-1 exploration well, drilled on the eastern flank of Chew Bahir Basin in Ethiopia, has failed to find commercial levels of oil. The well intersected lacustrine ...

Around five and half millenia ago, northern Africa went through a dramatic transformation. The Sahara desert expanded and grasslands, forests and lakes favoured by humans disappeared. Humans were ...

How was human evolution and migration influenced by past changes in climate? Researchers hope to find out. This question has led Aberystwyth University researchers to drill day and night to great ...

The Irish-founded exploration firm reported that drilling activity at its Shimela-1 well in the onshore South Omo Block encountered water-bearing reservoirs, but only traces of thermogenic gas. While ...

Tullow Oil said on Friday its Shimela-1 well in Ethiopia has found water-bearing reservoirs. The exploration group said Shimela-1, which is located in the South Omo Block in Ethiopia, was drilled to ...

Cueva de las Manos del Rio Pinturas, Cave of the Hands, Argentina, South America. Between 50,000 to 10,000 years ago modern humans reached all continents. Past studies hypothesized that early humans ...

Tipping points in the climate system can be the result of a slow but linear development. However, they can also be accompanied by a 'flickering', with two stable climatic states that alternate before ...