A revamped exhibit at the Springfield Science Museum begins with an eastern box turtle as a greeter, a colony of poison dart frogs and, if visitors are lucky, they might catch a glimpse of one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

AN expedition from the Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, recently visited Lake Sibayi in Northern Zululand, Natal. The lake is completely separated from the sea by a line of ...

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 ...

a fishing village on the northern shore of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. Image by Tristan Bove. 2024. An enormous lake in East Africa has fed and nurtured generations of people with its rich bounty of ...

They exported valuable ivory, gold and slaves from Africa. Textiles and foodstuffs were shipped from other countries. In the 16th century, Portuguese ships arrived on the shores of Tanganyika and ...

Jan. 27, 2025 The leaders of more than half of Africa’s nations gathered this week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s sprawling seaside metropolis, to commit to the biggest burst of spending on ...

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 ...

Languages: English. There are some alarming parallels between the harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Kenya's Lake Victoria and those in Lake Erie, a new study has found. By studying the Winam Gulf ...