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 ...

UN Agency tries to draw attention and more water to Lake Chad. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has teamed up with the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) for World Food Day to raise ...

Idi Abbas, the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), has assured residents of the Lake Chad region that the military is intensifying ...

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 ...

Lake Chad is an extremely shallow water body in the Sahel. It was once the world’s sixth largest inland water body with an open water area of 25,000 km2 in the 1960s, it shrunk dramatically at the ...

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 ...

BAGA SOLA, Chad, Sept 24, (UNHCR) - Lake Chad isn't really a lake any more. The encroaching Sahara desert has turned most of it into a mass of low-lying islands as far as the eye can see, encircled by ...