Lake Kivu, one of the African Great Lakes, sits along a tectonic plate boundary called the East African Rift, which is dotted with hot springs that feed carbon dioxide and methane into the water.

The lake’s geochemistry is unusual, largely as a consequence of local subaquatic springs that absorb carbon dioxide from the region’s volcanic soil and feed the gas into Kivu’s deepest waters.

Deep at the bottom of the lake, about 1,000 feet (300m) down, Kivu's water is heavy with dissolved gas. The lake contains an estimated 256 cubic kilometres of carbon dioxide (CO2) and 65 cubic ...

Lake Kivu’s eruption would be catastrophic.“[The lake] would release the equivalent of 2-6 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a day,” Morkel says. For reference, current global ...

Exclusive: Firm chosen to extract gas from Congo’s Lake Kivu failed criteria. By Sonia Rolley. November 2, 2023 4:16 PM UTC Updated November 2, 2023 Item 1 of 5 Aerial view ...

Congo awards Lake Kivu gas blocks to U.S. and Canadian producers. By Reuters. January 17, 2023 7:11 AM UTC Updated January 17, 2023 Bahavu children wash on the shore of Lake Kivu, on ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has received bids from nine qualifying companies for three gas blocks on Lake Kivu which it put up for auction on July 28, the hydrocarbons ministry said on Wednesday.

It’s a Friday afternoon on the Rwandan side of Lake Kivu, and in what was once a quiet cove, a daring venture is taking shape. Floating just offshore, like a giant mechanical swan, is a nearly ...