This dangerous lake in Cameroon, Africa could turn you into a human Diet Coke and Mentos experiment! Lake Nyos, located over ...

LAKE NYOS, Cameroon — It began quietly, with a white mist that bubbled out of this crater lake deep in Cameroon’s mountainous interior. The mist formed into a cloud, dropped over a cliff and poured ...

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Lake Nyos in Cameroon, a crater lake, is known as an 'exploding lake' due to its rare limnic eruptions. On August 21, 1986, it released a massive cloud of suffocating carbon dioxide, killing nearly 1, ...

Lake Nyos occupies a young maar crater in the Precambrian granitic terrain of Northwest Cameroon along the Cameroon Volcanic Line which has been of extensive volcanic activity in the geological recent ...

When local legend in Africa spoke of an exploding lake, western researchers scoffed. They were wrong—Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about... Aug 08, 2013 — When local legend in Africa spoke of ...

The waters of Lake Nyos, Cameroon, turned a murky brown following a deadly release of toxic gas in August 1986. Photo: Thierry Orban/Corbis Sygma View Slideshow __1986: __A deadly cloud of carbon ...

A natural dam holding back a lake in Cameroon is on the verge of collapse, threatening to unleash a wall of water into neighbouring Nigeria and sweep away 10,000 people in its path, a scientist warned ...