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

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

Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela experiences the most intense lightning activity on Earth. Known as Catatumbo lightning or "the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An abandoned and inoperative oil pumpjack stands in the oil-rich Maracaibo region of western Venezuela. The pumps that brought ...

A work brigade sponsored by Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA, which critics blame for the oil spills, use shovels and rakes to remove congealed petroleum from a Lake Maracaibo beach. (John Otis ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. For as long as people have traveled through Lake Maracaibo ...

LAKE MARACAIBO, Venezuela — On the western shore of Lake Maracaibo, workers use rakes and shovels to pull blobs of congealed oil out of the water, but the black goo sticks to everything — fishing nets ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. President Trump has vowed to bring back Venzuela’s once-booming oil industry. But that will likely be a long slog.