Once the third-largest source of freshwater in Africa, Lake Chad is disappearing according to new satellite images — putting millions of people in four Central African countries at risk of losing ...

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Droughts, flooding and a shrinking Lake Chad caused in part by climate change is fueling conflict and migration in the region and needs to be better addressed, a report said ...

The ancient Kanem-Borno Empire has announced plans to host its second cultural summit aimed at tackling violent extremism and ...

Few political conflicts with environmental roots are more worrisome to security experts than the crisis in the Lake Chad basin. The drying of the most important water source in Africa’s Sahel region ...

Lake Chad used to be one of the biggest lakes in the world, but its volume has been reduced to a tenth of what it was in the 1960s. The way this lake has dried up has become a symbol of climate change ...

Once one of Africa's largest bodies of freshwater, Lake Chad is disappearing fast, according to a new study published in this week's Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. "It's about ...

In the 1960s, North central Africa’s Lake Chad was larger than the state of Vermont but is now smaller than Rhode Island. NASA-funded researchers using computer models and climate data now understand ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - 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 ...

'Lake Chad's Troubled Waters' (4/4). In Chad's Lac province, 96% of the population is illiterate, and young people have resigned themselves to scraping by with intermittent jobs. This is a boon for ...

Frederi G. Viens receives research funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Office of Naval Research, and Michigan State University. In the past, his research on Lake Chad has also ...