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 deforestation ...

The region lies in the Great Rift Valley, a massive geographical feature created by shifting of tectonic plates and volcanic activity. A 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit near Africa’s Lake Tanganyika ...

The decrease in fishery productivity in Lake Tanganyika since the 1950s is a consequence of global warming rather than just overfishing, according to a new report. The lake was becoming warmer at the ...

Warming of surface waters and declining fish catches in Lake Tanganyika have been linked to global climate change. The impact of global warming on natural ecosystems may be starting to affect local ...

Africa's Lake Tanganyika has more biodiversity than the Galapagos Islands. It is the world’s longest freshwater lake and is home to many of the colorful freshwater fish (called cichlids) that fill ...

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Children sit next to a bucket filled with fish on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo. One of Africa's Great Lakes, Tanganyika is the second largest in the continent, ...

An influx of refugees in the 1990s has increased fishing pressures on the lake New research blames rising temperatures over the last century as the key cause of decline in one of the world's most ...

Editor’s Note: Andrew Cohen is university distinguished professor joint professor, Geosciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. The views expressed in this commentary ...