Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Methane mining could trigger killer gas cloud

Congolese people carry buckets of water on the bank of Lake Kivu in Goma. The lake contains a vast reservoir of dissolved methane (Image: Jose Cendon/AFP/Getty)A rush to extract methane from the depths of Africa's Lake Kivu could trigger a huge upwelling of suffocating gas, potentially affecting over 2 million people.

Methane mining could trigger killer gas cloud

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