A new study reassesses emissions of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere from African lakes. While it was previously assumed that these lakes were significant carbon dioxide sources, it has ...

Africa's soda lakes are rising and it's decimating the cyanobacteria flamingos have evolved to eat, putting the species at risk of drastic declines if current trends continue. When you purchase ...

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 lake is ...

It is one of the world's most spectacular sights -- huge flocks or 'flamboyances' of flamingos around East Africa's lakes -- as seen in the film Out of Africa or David Attenborough's A Perfect Planet.

This image shows the stratification of Lake Kivu, with its lower, warmer waters separated from its higher, cooler waters. D. Bouffard and A Wuest / AR Fluid Mechanics 2019 Lake Kivu is one of Africa’s ...

New research published in Scientific Reports suggests East Africa’s long-term drying has accelerated fault movement in the East African Rift Zone. By studying sediments from Lake Turkana, scientists ...

In our search for places remote and bizarre, we stumbled upon a lake in Tanzania so toxic that any living creature that comes in contact with the lakewater, turns into stone-quite literally. However, ...

A region on Saturn’s moon, Titan, has been found to be similar to the Etosha Pan in Namibia, Africa. Both are ephemeral lakes – large, shallow depressions that sometimes fill with liquid. Ontario ...

A study conducted by researchers at the University of Liège (Belgium) has made it possible to assess for the first time the importance of CO2 and CH4 emissions from African lakes. Until now, ...