A lake that has lost 90% of its water, endured decades of violent conflict, and hosted aerial bombardments seems like the last place birds would call home. Yet something unexpected is happening in ...

A study titled "Monitoring major biodiversity stronghold in war zones: model predicts Lake Chad remains Africa's most ...

It sounds like something from Wakanda, the futuristic African kingdom of the hit movie "Black Panther". But "Transaqua" is a very real proposal for a very real problem—how to replenish the shrinking ...

The 22 March is World Water Day, which focuses on the importance of freshwater. The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations aim to achieve a better and more sustainable future. Goal number ...

This is a guest post by Laura Dimon. Laura is the Africa program intern at the Council on Foreign Relations. The water shortage strains inhabitants of the region and promotes interstate and intrastate ...

Few political conflicts with environmental roots are more worrisome to security experts than the crisis in the Lake Chad basin. The drying of the most important water source in Africa’s Sahel region ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it ...

Once one of the largest water bodies in Africa, Lake Chad is slowly disappearing due to a variety of factors including climate change and overuse of water resources The lake’s water level and size has ...

Indigenous people near Lake Chad in Africa have historically used dried cakes called Dihe, made from aquatic cyanobacteria, to supplement their protein-deficient diets. However, Dihe wafers have not ...

Lake Chad is an extremely shallow water body in the Sahel. It was once the world’s sixth largest inland water body with an open water area of 25,000 km2 in the 1960s, it shrunk dramatically at the ...