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Research on Kenya's Lake Victoria's Winam Gulf, a potential model for Lake Erie, reveals year-round harmful algal blooms dominated by cyanobacteria like Dolichospermum, Microcystis, and Planktothrix.
The Winam Gulf of Kenya's Lake Victoria, a gulf with similar limnological properties and therefore could potentially be a model for Lake Erie in a warming climate, experiences harmful algal blooms ...
Beginning in 2019, devastating floods on the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria have inundated homes, displaced families and left some orphaned children in charge of caring for their siblings and ...
In Entebbe, on the Ugandan side of Lake Victoria, fish are also dying, January 2021. ABUBAKER LUBOWA / REUTERS. The smell of rotting fish hangs over the town of Kisumu in eastern Kenya.
The Kenya Meteorological Department has listed Nairobi among the regions set to experience cold weather for the next five ...
KISUMU, Kenya — It is a little past 5 p.m. at the lakeside city of Kisumu, in the western part of Kenya. An hour later, the sun sets over the sprawling Lake Victoria as far as the eye can see.
Small-scale fishers on Lake Victoria (Africa’s largest freshwater lake, shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) are drowning. Safety issues such as storms, a lack of available life jackets, and a ...
Kenya and Uganda are using the shared resource of Lake Victoria to ensure a steady supply of petroleum products to landlocked ...
Nairobi — Officials from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are meeting for the fourth time in less than two years to find ways to more effectively fight transnational crimes around the Lake Victoria area.
The Winam Gulf of Kenya's Lake Victoria, a gulf with similar limnological properties and therefore could potentially be a model for Lake Erie in a warming climate, experiences harmful algal blooms ...