The sensitivity of Lake Tanganyika's productivity to reduced mixing is due to its tropical location and extreme depth (1,470 metres). In temperate freshwater lakes, seasonal cooling of the lake ...

A few million years ago, fish were swimming quite happily in Lake Tanganyika. The lake itself – now classed as one of ...

Kigoma, Tanzania – Just as dawn’s first rays start creeping over western Tanzania’s gentle hills, a constellation of scattered torchlights moving across the water signals the arrival of the ...

Figure 1: The location of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa and the sediment cores KH1 and MC1 analysed in this study. Figure 3: A comparison between Lake Tanganyika LST and global temperature trends ...

Heavy flooding following torrential rains in eastern Congo washed away several villages along the shores of Lake Tanganyika, leaving at least 62 dead and 50 missing, authorities said Saturday.

As fishing pressure has increased on Lake Tanganyika, its level has also been rising, inundating shoreline communities. Sedimentation as a result of farming, infrastructure projects and ...

DODOMA, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Fishing activities in Lake Tanganyika, shared by Tanzania, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, will be closed from May 15 to Aug. 15 to allow for ...

BUKAVU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - More than 100 people have died after flooding in a village near the shores of Lake Tanganyika in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a local official ...

Nothing about cichlids is ordinary. In Lake Tanganyika alone, at the divide between Central and East Africa, roughly 250 species evolved from a single ancestor over 9.7 million years.