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Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

The bold question-askers at What If reveal how Lake Natron's extreme chemistry can petrify animals into eerie stone-like ...

Lake Natron is primarily located in Tanzania, but the 56km-long body of water also stretches into Kenya. The isolated lake lays in the shadow of the active 7,650feet-tall Ol Doinyo Lengai - or ...

With a pH that ranges from 9 to 10.5, and water temperatures that can reach 140 degrees Fahrenheit, the lake is so inhospitable that it kills most wildlife that wind up in its depths. But perhaps ...

Lake Natron takes its name from natron, a mineral often referred to as sodium carbonate decahydrate. Records show that ancient Egyptians used this natural salt to dry out organs during the ...

How to Survive reveals what makes Lake Natron’s water so deadly, from its extreme alkalinity to its effects on wildlife and humans. They share survival advice for avoiding or coping with contact ...

Lake Natron in Tanzania is one of the most serene lakes in Africa, but it's also the source of some of the most phantasmagorical photographs ever captured — images that look as though living ...

THINK PINK in the wilds of East Africa. At Tanzania’s Lake Natron, lesser flamingoes are a pastel crowd, their salmon-colored plumage glowing as vast flocks fly overhead or wade in a shallow ...