Africa’s Great Lakes are a vital resource for millions of people living in the region. They provide water for drinking, agriculture, and industry, making them essential for the livelihoods of ...

A lake like no other Unlike most lakes, which are neutral or slightly acidic, Lake Natron is a high-alkaline body of water with a pH that can reach 10.5—almost as caustic as ammonia. This ...

The emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2) and methane (CH 4) -- the most potent greenhouse gases -- into the atmosphere from African lakes are reassessed in a study undertaken by the Laboratory of ...

African temperatures rose an average 1 degree Fahrenheit in the 20th century — matching the global average — and even more in the past few decades in such places as Lake Tanganyika ...

An almost picturesque lake in Rwanda is actually home to a massive concentration of methane and carbon dioxide. The “killer lake” sits between the republics of Rwanda and Congo in Africa.

The effort to develop the River and Lake product was led by Professor Philippa Berry of DMU's Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing Laboratory: "Monitoring of water resources is vital over Africa, to ...

Many African lakes go unvisited by scientists, but what is known is troubling enough, says veteran researcher Robert E. Hecky, of Canada’s University of Waterloo.

For example, in Lake Tanganyika, there’s a species that can temporarily survive in layers of the lake that don’t have oxygen. The average African cichlid size ranges from 1 inch long to over 3 ...

The excrements of hippos play an important role in the ecosystem of African lakes and rivers. Because there are fewer and fewer hippos, this ecosystem is in danger. In the long term, this could ...

The Africa was towing a barge, named the Severn, and both vessels were carrying coal during the fateful trip in 1895. The towline connecting the vessels was cut by a powerful snowstorm, and the ...

There are almost two million lakes on Earth.” Until now, researchers have only had data on North American and Scandinavian (boreal) lakes and very little on tropical lakes and none on African lakes.