Taming Africa's killer lake

Tom Clarke

Nature, 2001, vol. 409, issue 6820, 554-555

Abstract: An international team of scientists and engineers is in Cameroon to begin 'degassing' Lake Nyos, scene of a 1986 natural disaster in which a cloud of carbon dioxide killed more than 1,700 people. Tom Clarke assesses the risks and benefits.

Date: 2001
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