RESIDENTS of nine villages and a coalition of environmental experts have issued a strong declaration against a proposed soda ...

Deep lakes in the Sahara lasted until more recently than previously thought, fed by an unexpected water source. The discovery ...

ARUSHA: LAKE Natron, a globally recognised Ramsar Site, has been home to local communities, including the Maasai people, for ...

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

Lake Natron is a key mating ground for lesser endangered flamingo, but animals risk being frozen forever in its salt if they dare to go near its shores.

Lake Natron is primarily located in Tanzania, but the 56km-long body of water also stretches into Kenya. The isolated lake lays in the shadow of the active 7,650feet-tall Ol Doinyo Lengai - or ...

Lake Natron is one of two alkaline lakes in that area of East Africa; the other is Lake Bahi. Both are terminal lakes that do not drain out to any river or sea; they are fed by hot springs and ...

How to Survive reveals what makes Lake Natron’s water so deadly, from its extreme alkalinity to its effects on wildlife and humans. They share survival advice for avoiding or coping with contact ...

Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is an incredibly alkaline body of water. Its pH is as high as 10.5 — not quite as caustic as ammonia, but similar to the laxative Milk of Magnesia.

Lake Natron (above), the most caustic lake of all, is the birds’ breeding — and feeding — epicenter. It’s not the Africa of safari fantasies, of waving grasses and elephants and lions.

Nick Brandt, well-known for his photography of East Africa’s natural landscape, came across Tanzania’s Lake Natron during his travels. And as his ensuing photos demonstrate, this isn’t any ...