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This stunning astronaut photo shows a rare phenomenon, known as a "sunglint", transforming a potential meteor crater lake into a giant silver mirror in the heart of Africa. Lake Iro, known locally as ...

Dec. 21, 2024 This stunning astronaut photo shows a rare phenomenon, known as a "sunglint", transforming a potential meteor crater lake into a giant silver mirror in the heart of Africa.

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.

Lake Chad is an extremely shallow water body in the Sahel. It was once the world’s sixth largest inland water body with an open water area of 25,000 km2 in the 1960s, it shrunk dramatically at the ...

Location: Central Africa A part of the African Great Lakes, Tanganyika is second in the world not just in terms of depth, but also by volume of fresh water. 1. Baikal Lake ...

More Sizeable lava lakes were spotted at the summits of both volcanoes during the simultaneous eruptions. The lava lake at Nyiragongo is particularly interesting because stratovolcanoes do not ...

Thanks to their high concentrations of phytoplankton, African lakes emit less CO2 than their boreal counterparts, with important consequences for climate modelling.

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 ...