SYDNEY, Australia & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vast Solar Pty Ltd. (Vast), an Australian company and leading developer of concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) technology, today announced ...

While exploring stark areas of East Africa in 2010, photographer Nick Brandt stumbled upon an amazing site. Perfectly preserved remains of birds, fish, and bats lay strewn around the shores of Lake ...

IT is widely regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful lakes – owed to its unique reddish pink colour. But tourists must not swim in it, and the water is so harsh that it can turn animals to ...

Why it's incredible: The lake is so alkaline, it burns the skin and eyes of most animals and turns some to "stone." Lake Natron has a chemical makeup that is so harsh, it is uninhabitable for most ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over two saline lakes in East Africa: the larger Lake Natron in northern Tanzania and the smaller Lake Magadi, just over the border in Kenya. Lake Natron is ...

Correction 10/9/2013: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Lake Natron was 402 miles wide. The lake is 402 square miles. A lake in Tanzania has come into the spotlight recently ...