In a remote part of Venezuela the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo. It's a stunning ... and a storm chaser's dream - the Catatumbo lightning. With most experts estimating that lightning ...

The lightning occurs only in the skies above where the Catatumbo River empties into Lake Maracaibo in the state of Zulia, Venezuela. The lightning can last for ten hours at a time at an average of ...

A putrid smell hangs over the black-stained shores of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, where an oil slick is emblematic of the steep decline in the country's once-enviable petroleum industry.

According to Venezuela's oil minister Rafael Ramirez, there has been a recent oil discovery in an existing field in Lake Maracaibo. This new find will boost Venezuela's reserves of medium crude.