Lake lays bare the cost of climate change

ZOMBA, Malawi - Just four months ago, the fishing harbor at Kachulu on the western shores of Lake Chilwa in Malawi was bustling with fishermen and traders haggling over the catch of the day.

Today, hundreds of fishing boats sit marooned on cracked, dry mud as vultures fly above the shores of the once productive fishing zone 30 kilometers east of the southern African country's old capital Zomba.

Julius Nkhata, a local villager, said the increasingly dramatic seasonal dry-out of the lake - blamed by experts on man-made climate change - has displaced local people and increased joblessness.