It is one of the world's most spectacular sights -- huge flocks or 'flamboyances' of flamingos around East Africa's lakes -- as seen in the film Out of Africa or David Attenborough's A Perfect Planet.

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Two small, beady eyes are watching me. I’m close enough to see light swirling around the green irises, the black pupils reduced to the ...

Lake Victoria is known as the Jewel of Africa. It is a colossal freshwater lake in East Africa and the largest lake in the ...

Three closely grouped lakes in Ethiopia's Great Rift Valley have distinctly different hues thanks to a combination of unique features. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Pierre Rochette receives funding from Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French ministry of Science), ET-Megafire grant ANR-21-CE49-0014-03. His mission to Iro lake was supported by the University of N ...

This image shows the stratification of Lake Kivu, with its lower, warmer waters separated from its higher, cooler waters. D. Bouffard and A Wuest / AR Fluid Mechanics 2019 Lake Kivu is one of Africa’s ...

AFTER you travel away from shore on a speedboat for about 40 minutes, Lake Volta, the largest man-made lake in Africa, feels like the open sea. Yet parts of the Ghanaian lake are actually a giant fish ...

Across the central Congo Basin lies a bastion of carbon that scientists are just beginning to understand. First mapped only ...

Africa is the only continent with large, natural tropical lakes, and boasts around 1.3 million square kilometers of freshwater resources, including lakes, rivers, reservoirs, floodplains and swamps.