With less water in the lakes, especially Lake Turkana, it has become easier for the great rift beneath to move.

Huge pink flocks of millions of flamingos - flamboyances of flamingos - are one of nature's great spectacles. But colleagues and I have uncovered worrying trends in the salty and highly alkaline "soda ...

As East Africa’s great lakes shrink after thousands of years, scientists find the land beneath may be pulling apart faster, revealing an unexpected link between ancient climate shifts and modern ...

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

The TEAL project is designed to improve environmental monitoring in the African Great Lakes. We are building field spectrometers for measuring the optical properties of lakes. Deployment of autonomous ...

"Results of scientific investigations ... presented at the IDEAL (International Decade for the East African Lakes) Symposium on the Limnology, Climatology and Paleoclimatology of the East African ...

Critiqued by Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler, "The emergence of Lake Rudolf as an iconic colonial space," History in Africa (New Brunswick, NJ) 29, 2002, pages 321-336. (DT19 .H673 AFA) Reviewed by Brett ...