Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, is facing a growing threat that's turning its waters green. This green color is derived from toxic bacteria that poses serious risks to the people and wildlife ...

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Emily J. Beverly receives funding from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, and the Leakey Foundation. Lake Victoria, in East Africa, is the world’s largest tropical freshwater lake.

Lake Victoria, in East Africa, is the world’s largest tropical freshwater lake. At 68,800km², it’s also the second largest freshwater lake in the world after Lake Superior in North America. On a clear ...

Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater body in the world. Over the last four decades, however, the lake has faced a number of environmental problems, including pollution, biodiversity loss, ...

People like to argue that Uganda does not have beaches, but only lake shores. Bugala Island does not bother with that debate.

From previous research we knew that the lake dried up twice, at 17,000 and 15,000 years ago. Lake Victoria is the world’s largest tropical freshwater lake. At 68,800km², it’s also the second-largest ...

Nam dar (the lake is disappearing). That is how besieged locals sum up the unfolding events on Lake Victoria. They cannot fathom the hidden forces behind the slow but systematic death of their source ...