SPRINGFIELD — A revamped exhibit at the Springfield Science Museum begins with an eastern box turtle as a greeter, a colony ...

In old maps of Africa dating back to the 1950s and 1960s, Lake Chad was a conspicuous presence, nearly as conspicuous on African maps as Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika and Malawi. I was reading recently ...

Kamanzi highlighted the geological connection to Lake Albert in Uganda, part of the same rift valley that extends through Lake Kivu to Lake Tanganyika ... be deployed to map the lakebed in ...

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

Lake Tanganyika is Africa’s longest reservoir of fresh water and a lifeblood ... fuelling algae growth and feeding fish. Map courtesy of Al Jazeera. One 2016 study, published in the academic journal ...

Dagaa, or small sardine fish, laid out to dry on tarps and raised drying racks in Katonga, a fishing village in northwestern Tanzania [Tristan Bove/Al Jazeera] Lake Tanganyika is Africa’s ...

There are many huge lakes in the world, but very few are bigger than Africa’s largest. The lake is so big that it stretches across three countries and is named after English royalty.

The only practical way to explore Lake Kariba is on an organised tour. When to go The weather in southern Africa is dictated by two main seasons — dry and rainy. Dry season runs from June to ...

A unique and fascinating lake village of bamboo and teak stilted houses is attracting more tourists than ever before. Often dubbed as ‘the Venice of Africa’ , Ganvié is located near the ...

The fish species studied, Lamprologus ocellatus, belongs to the family of shell-dwelling cichlids and are naturally found in Lake Tanganyika in Africa. What makes them special is that they live in ...

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