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 ...

Discover the deepest lakes in the world. From the ancient Lake Baikal to the mysterious subglacial Lake Vostok, explore these ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. An almost picturesque lake in Rwanda is actually home to a massive concentration of methane ...

Its origin is unknown but it is believed to be a remnant of a former inland sea. It doesn’t drain into the ocean but it has shrunk by over 90% since the 1960s due to climate change, an increase in the ...

Floods force 100,000 out of their homes – and the water in this African city is still rising - WORLD OF TROUBLE: People fleeing the rising waters around Lake Tanganyika in Burundi are fighting for ...

Lake Malawi is one of the African Great Lakes in and around the Great Rift Valley, situated in Mozambique. It is the ninth largest lake in the world, the third largest and second deepest lake in ...

Six years ago, Martin Hobbs had never swum a mile. This week, he cemented a world record by swimming 361 miles – the full length of Lake Malawi in Africa. Hobbs, 45, set the record Wednesday for ...

This striking, false-color satellite image shows the intense heat coming from a pair of lava lakes that emerged on simultaneously erupting volcanoes in Congo. The neighboring peaks are among Africa's ...

Research Director FRS-FNRS, Associate Professor at ULiège, Université de Liège One of the keys to predicting climate change is the modelling of how greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from natural ...

Documentary filmmakers using a remotely operated vehicle to search the lakebed of Lake Huron said they found the wreck of a ship that disappeared 128 years ago, losing its entire crew. The ship has ...