Lake Chad, once one of Africa’s largest inland water bodies, has lost around 90% of its surface area since the 1960s, leaving millions of people facing the loss of fishing, farming and livestock livel...
Nature never fails to surprise us and sometimes it throws some unimaginable findings that are beyond human calculation. In a recent study, a rare fossil goose was discovered in the remains of an ancie...
For generations, Lake Victoria supported one of the world’s richest freshwater ecosystems. Beneath its surface lived hundreds of species of cichlid fish, many found nowhere else on Earth. These small,...
Image:Left/Brilliant Africa/Right/Canva At first glance, Lake Natron in northern Tanzania appears almost otherworldly. Its shimmering red waters, highly alkaline chemistry and scorching temperatures c...
Across the planet, lakes are usually associated with glaciers, rivers, volcanic activity, or shifting tectonic landscapes. A much smaller group owes its existence to something far less common. At vari...
Ladakh fines tourists for driving into lake SRINAGAR: Four tourists have been fined a total of Rs 2 lakh for off-roading in Ladakh’s Pangong Lake and other protected wildlife areas in the Union Territ...
Most bridges are forgotten almost as soon as they are crossed. A few seconds over a river, a glance through the window, and the journey continues. The longest bridges in the United States belong to a ...
Vipan Kumar in the hospital after rescuing the girl In January this year, an Indian-origin construction worker became a hero in Romania after risking his own life to save a five-year-old girl who fell...
Rivers are often treated as fixed features of the landscape. They bend, flood, and shift over long stretches of time, but they seem permanent enough that entire towns and economies are built around th...
For a long time, astronomers treated the early universe as a place where galaxies were still finding their footing, small systems forming stars rapidly, while the larger cosmic structures familiar tod...