This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tire tracks stretched across the flat lake bed to the horizon. We followed them in a Suzuki 4x4, looking for clues about ...

The vegetation around the lake comprised of grass and reeds has dried up, forcing the animals to stray into people’s farms. This has seen cases of human-wildlife conflicts intensify around the lake.

In Saylor Township, there are dried-up remnants of a former lake hidden away from the fast-moving traffic alongside Northwest ...

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“The threats in Lake Kanyaboli require an urgent address and if nothing is done, the lake will dry up, then the swamp will dry up because the lake recharges the swamp,” he said. Moses ...

But Tulare Lake re-emerged earlier this year, leaving some of the farms that stood on the land just last year now under water. Scientists have said the cycle of dry years mixed in with extremely ...

where the ground in some parts has dried up so much that the mud has cracked. In other parts of the lake, vegetation has grown over the lake bed, making the area look like grassy plains instead.