Lakes, natural and man-made, provide water, food and habitats for wildlife, and also support local economies. Around the ...

The Winam Gulf of Kenya's Lake Victoria, a gulf with similar limnological properties and therefore could potentially be a model for Lake Erie in a warming climate, experiences harmful algal blooms ...

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 ...

The lake's shoreline stretches over 2,000 miles and it is home to around 1,000 islands, some of which are inhabited.

[Mumo Munuve, Standard] Sometimes last March, hydrologists reported Lake Victoria waters having risen by a record 13.66 metres. This was more than a metre higher than the 2020 record. Much as ...

Lake Victoria, the world’s second-largest freshwater lake, supports over 47 million people across East Africa. Rapid population growth and climate change are worsening pollution from inadequate ...

The problem is understudied in Africa’s main lakes, including its largest – Lake Victoria. Past research on cyanoHABs has mostly used microscopy to study the kinds found there, but microscopy ...