Audio long-read: How dangerous is Africa’s explosive Lake Kivu?
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Lake kivo holds 300 cubic kilometers of dissolved carbon dioxide and 60 cubic kilometers of methane laced with toxic hydrogen sulphide. The lake has the potential to explosively release these gases in a rare phenomenon known as alimnic eruption, that could send a huge pulse of heat trapping gases into the atmosphere. Such a disaster could fill the surrounding valley with suffocating andtoxic gas, potentially lling millions of people. It could create one of the worst, if not the worst, natural humanitarian disasters in history.
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