A new study reveals climate-driven lake swings subtly reshape Lake Turkana’s crust, loosening rock, accelerating faults, and ...

When Dickson Ngome first leased his farm at Lake Naivasha in Kenya’s Rift Valley in 2008, it was over 2 kilometers (1.2 miles ...

Traders weigh fish at Lake Turkana. Fishing in the lake has resumed after the local county government lifted a six-month ban. [File, Standard] Stakeholders and county officials from Turkana and ...

The first shipment of turbines for the 310 megawatt Lake Turkana Wind Power project (LTWP) has arrived at the Port of Mombasa. The firm's General Manager Phylip Leferink announced that the turbines ...

Someone born near the start of the 20th century could have witnessed the dawn of commercial flight, the creation of nuclear weapons, the moon landing and even the early growth ...

US and Kenyan researchers have collaborated on a study that has revealed more about genetic adaptations in people that have occurred because of environmental pressures. This effort focused on people ...

An aerial view of Lake Turkana, the world’s largest permanent desert lake. A recent study reveals that climate-driven fluctuations in lake levels can significantly influence fault activity in the ...

Scientists discovered genetic variants in the Turkana that help conserve water in deserts, but these variants may now raise disease risks in urban settings, early data suggest. When you purchase ...

Lake Turkana sits in a tectonic basin formed by the East African Rift. Fed mainly by the Omo River, its levels and size have long been shaped by climate-driven shifts in rainfall and evaporation.