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Researchers Finds Lake Tanganyika Has Experienced Unprecedented Warming Over Last Century

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As the lake gets warmer, we expect productivity to decline, and we expect that it will affect the [fishing] industry. Lake Tanganyika is bordered by Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia—four of the poorest countries in the world, according to the United Nations Human Development Index.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. C to 2 °C above pre-Industrial Revolution levels. Reductions in Emissions.