Explore the breathtaking extremes of weather, from endless lightning storms in Venezuela to New Hampshire’s hurricane-force ...

Atmospheric instability and the rains of the last few days have transformed into a tropical cyclone, number 18, which is ...

Patients with Huntington disease in Venezuela’s impoverished Lake Maracaibo region (Photo by Vladimir Marcano) Venezuela is home to one of the world’s highest concentrations of people with Huntington ...

The South American nation has 14 crab processing facilities, mostly located in the state of Zulia, along the coast of Lake Maracaibo, according to the USDA study. The industry’s primary crabmeat ...

Unique to Venezuela, this type of lightning can only be observed over the mouth of the Catatumbo River where it empties into Lake Maracaibo. It occurs approximately 260 nights a year, 10 hours per day ...

However, some historians point out that if the Battle of Lake Maracaibo had been a victory for the Royalist forces, the Spanish Crown might have been able to establish a new front in Western Venezuela ...

Henry Morgan's raid on Lake Maracaibo, also known as the Sack of Maracaibo and the Battle of Lake Maracaibo, was a military event that took place between 16 March and 21 May 1669 during the latter ...

2024 At least two people died and four were declared missing following the sinking of an oil barge operated by a contractor of Venezuelan state-run energy company PDVSA at Lake Maracaibo ...