An extreme example lies 1,500 miles northwest of here, deeper in the drought zone, where Lake Chad, once the world's sixth-largest, has shrunk to 2 percent of its 1960s size. Many examples ...

Globally, construction of large dams fell from a late-1970s peak of about 1,500 a year to around 50 a year in 2020. Once seen as a promising renewable resource, hydropower is increasingly understood ...

Discover the Lion Brothers that Beat The Odds And Swim Across A 1500m River In Uganda. Read more about this here ... a trait only shared with other lions in the Lake Manyara region. They often spend ...

NIAMEY - Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a ...

Niger withdraws from Lake Chad military force. Niger had quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa’s Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil ...

From 6000 BC, the Chinese harvested salt crystals from Lake Yungchen which partially dried in the summer sun. Many other lakes around the world have been used in the same way. The wealth produced by ...

Just over half the world's population shares a river or lake basin with at least one other country. To sustainably manage those water resources for the health of people, ecosystems and economies ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

Since 2011, CIWA has catalyzed change by accelerating transboundary water cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa to enable governments, river basin organizations, civil society groups, and others to make ...

“Until the 1960s, Lake Chad was the fourth largest lake in Africa and the sixth largest lake in the world: however, its surface area has since dwindled from 26,000 square kilometers (10,000 ...