Africa's Lake Kivu contains vast quantities of gas, which makes it both dangerous and valuable. Anjali Nayar asks whether it is possible to tap the gas without causing a disaster.
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Anjali Nayar is an International Development Research Centre fellow at Nature.
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Nayar, A. Earth science: A lakeful of trouble. Nature 460, 321–323 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460321a
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