Lake Volta, Ghana — The sunset over Lake Volta masks the sinister depths below. Rickety vessels are filled with young boys, trapped — like the fish they catch — and forced to dive deep to free ...

Lake Volta is the world's biggest man-made lake, and trees rise above the water's surface. Fishing nets can become caught on the limbs, and children are made to dive into the water to untangle them.

A satellite mapping company is hoping to focus the power of web-surfing couch potatoes around the world on the cruel African warlords who traffic in child slaves. Tomnod, the project run by ...

Water hyacinth is rapidly spreading across southern Ghana's Lake Volta, severely impacting fishing, depleting fish stocks, and threatening local livelihoods. The water hyacinth, a free-floating ...

22:33, Tue, Mar 18, 2025 Updated: 22:34, Tue, Mar 18, 2025 When people think of massive man-made projects, artificial lakes aren’t usually the first thing that comes to mind. Skyscrapers, bridges, and ...

Fifteen of our compatriots are gone. Swept under the cold waters of the Volta Lake. Eleven of them were children, one as young as two years old. Fifteen lives ended not by war, not by plague, but by a ...

As winter slowly approached in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, the trees along the River Volga began to change colour (at the time of my visit). Their leaves turned bright red, orange and yellow, ...