Situated within an ancient meteorite impact crater, Lake Bosumtwi is the only natural lake in Ghana. It is located south-east of Kumasi, the second largest city of the country, in the Ashanti region.

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes the Earth at a very high velocity. This leaves an excavated circular hole on the Earth’s surface. It ...

Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana?s largest natural lake, maybe seating on a potential time bomb as feverish moves are underway to grant Norcan, a Canadian mining company, the permits it needs to enable it explore ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded URI Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) geological oceanographer Dr. John King $126,000 as part of a joint international scientific drilling project ...

The infamous 1970s drought of the African Sahel region, which lasted several decades and killed more than 100,000 people, was actually a “minor” event, say researchers who have uncovered evidence that ...

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Results of studies carried out on Lake Bosumtwi in southern Ghana are far from comforting. The West African nation has been advised to begin preparations for an imminent and inevitable drought of ...

Winston Wheeler, researcher at the University of Arizona, collecting samples from a partially submerged tropical tree at Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana. A submerged forest in the lake provides evidence for ...