Lake Kivu is set to receive dedicated water transport routes to enhance navigability and ensure the safety of passengers and goods, The New Times has learned. Located in Rwanda’s Western Province, ...

Why it's incredible: The lake contains huge amounts of explosive carbon dioxide and methane. Lake Kivu is a giant body of water that is so saturated with carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane at its depths ...

Thousands of years of volcanic activity has caused a massive accumulation of methane and carbon dioxide to dissolve in the depths of Lake Kivu, enough to prove monumentally destructive if released.

Thousands have fled the city of Goma after Mount Nyiragongo erupted and hundreds of earthquakes followed. Residents describe chaotic scenes and packed roads. Officials say more eruptions, earthquakes ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — At least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat with 278 passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, a local governor said. According to Jean-Jacques Purusi, ...

D ozens of people were missing after a boat sank on Lake Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, government officials and a civil society leader said on Tuesday. GOMA, Democratic ...

Two babies have been found alive on the shores of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Lake Kivu, days after floods and landslides killed more than 400 people in two villages in the country's South Kivu ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The majority of the 50 passengers aboard a wooden boat that capsized on a lake in eastern Congo are presumed to be dead, a local official said. The boat crossing Lake Kivu was ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, No. 2 (January 10, 2017), pp. 251-256 (6 pages) The sediment record of Lake Kivu reveals a complex ...