Giraffes that are found in Lake Magadi Adventures. Located about 130 kilometres in the Rift Valley Southwest of Nairobi, Lake Magadi Adventures is the latest leisure spot for nature and bird lovers ...

Tourists enjoy the healing properties of the Magadi hot springs. I have never held locomotives in high regard. My last trip on a train was a lunatic experience, literally. The engine broke down and I ...

Rift Valley lakes within eastern Africa range from freshwater to highly alkaline systems and are homes to diverse ecosystems. These Rift Valley lakes are also sedimentary repositories, yielding a high ...

A FLOCK of flamingos flies across this otherworldly background in the Great Rift valley. Phillip Chang, an amateur photographer from the US, took this shot from a helicopter about 150 metres above ...

Lake Magadi, a carbonate-rich lake in Kenya, has a bed made of volcanic rock and salty water rich in microbes. In a new paper just published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

A progressively drying climate punctuated by variable wetter episodes may have precipitated the transition from our hominin ancestors to anatomically modern humans, according to research published on ...

Samples of ancient sediments from a lake basin in East Africa have revealed that arid conditions developed in the area around half a million years ago, an environmental change that could have played a ...