Better water retention infrastructure would enable communities to withstand the region’s many security and developmental ...

A 2017 astronaut photo shows the islands of Dek and Daga lurking in the murky, algae-infested waters of Ethiopia's Lake Tana.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Results of scientific investigations ... presented at the IDEAL (International Decade for the East African Lakes) Symposium on the Limnology, Climatology and Paleoclimatology of the East African ...

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 ...

At the close of an international conference in Paris on the Great Lakes region, French President Emmanuel Macron has ...

KINSHASA | Xinhua | A major conference on peace and stability in Africa’s Great Lakes region drew to a close in Paris on Thursday, with a particular focus on the protracted crisis in eastern ...

Cichlids are one of the largest and strangest groups of vertebrate fish — fish with backbones — on Earth. They’re popular as pets and farmed in aquaculture, and scientists have been studying them ...