Nairobi, 31 October 2005 The dramatic and, in some cases damaging environmental changes sweeping Africa’s lakes are brought into sharp focus in a new atlas. Produced by the United Nations Environment ...

The African Rift Lakes (ARL) Programme consolidates and integrates experiences and lessons gained through a number of ongoing and well-established programmes. The new programme consolidates elements ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1960s, North central Africa’s Lake Chad was larger than the state of Vermont but is now smaller than Rhode Island. NASA-funded researchers using computer models and climate data now understand ...

The chemistry of Lake Natron's water promotes quick crystallizing. Oct. 2, 2013— -- The Dead Sea may be one of the saltiest lakes on earth, but at least it doesn't turn animals to husks of their ...

New research shows there may have been more nitrogen in the ocean between one and two billion years ago than previously thought, allowing marine organisms to proliferate at a time when ...

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 ...