A lake in Venezuela the size of Connecticut sits under constant thunderstorms for most of the year, making it the lightning ...

The day on which residents of Maracaibo destroyed their own city out of sheer desperation began relatively normally, considering the circumstances. It was March 10, 2019, and for the preceding three ...

MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) — The fishermen of Lake Maracaibo say they face their worst nightmare everyday as fish stocks decline and pollution degrades the health of this great freshwater lake, one of ...

Private jets fly over dilapidated Maracaibo as executives seek deals and crude prices surge. A real recovery will not be easy ...

Decades of extensive and largely unregulated oil operations, starting with the Barroso 2 discovery in 1922, have covered Lake Maracaibo with leaking infrastructure, creating a devastating and ...

About a quarter of the residents of Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second-largest city, have moved away — and more are expected to soon follow. Irma Palmar, 52, cares for her seven grandchildren at her home ...

An occasional lightning show is great, but imagine seeing one most nights. Residents who live near Venezuela’s Lago de Maracaibo, or Lake Maracaibo, don’t have to wonder about that scenario—they ...

Over a century of oil production in the Maracaibo Basin has left Lake Maracaibo heavily polluted, with regular occurrences of oil slicks and algae blooms. Rundown energy infrastructure around the lake ...

Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela is the largest lake in Latin America. It is also among the oldest water bodies on the planet. Its proximity to the Andes Mountains and the Caribbean Sea creates a unique ...