News tagged with lake tanganyika

Ancient catastrophic drought leads to question: How severe can climate change become?

How severe can climate change become in a warming world? Worse than anything we've seen in written history, according to results of a study appearing this week in the journal Science.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (19) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

David Livingstone letter deciphered at last

(AP) -- The contents of a long-illegible letter written by famed 19th century explorer David Livingstone have finally been deciphered, a British university said Friday, nearly 140 years after he wrote of ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 5

Geologists show unprecedented warming in Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika, the second oldest and the second-deepest lake in the world, could be in for some rough waters.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 16, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (26) | comments 37 | with audio podcast

Bigger and bossier better for fish families

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you are spending the holidays with big Uncle Frank or bossy Aunt Minnie and wondering whether you would be better off with another family, spare a thought for the humble cichlid fish.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New evidence: AIDS-like disease in wild chimpanzees

An international consortium has found that wild chimpanzees naturally infected with Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses (SIV) - long thought to be harmless to the apes - can contract an AIDS-like syndrome and ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1