Audio long-read: How dangerous is Africa’s explosive Lake Kivu?
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🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Lake Kivu, nestled between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, is a geological anomaly that holds 300 cubic kilometres of dissolved carbon dioxide and 60 cubic kilometres of methane.
The lake has the potential to explosively release these gases, which could fill the surrounding valley, potentially killing millions of people.
Researchers are trying to establish the likelihood of such an event happening, and the best way to safely siphon the gases from the lake.
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| 1:23.8 | This is an audio long read from nature. In this episode, How Dangerous is Africa's explosive Lake Kivu? Written by Nicola Jones and read by me, Benjamin Thompson. |
| 1:33.0 | On the 22nd of May, one of Africa's most active volcanoes, Mount Nira Gongo, started spewing |
| 1:40.1 | lava towards the crowded city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or the DRC. |
| 1:47.0 | The eruption destroyed several villages, killed dozens of people, and forced an estimated |
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