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, ...

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Over months and years, however, the researchers uncovered a monstrous, far more insidious geologic disaster—one thought to exist only in myth. Even worse, they realized, the catastrophe could recur, ...

In 1986, the people of Cameroon woke to an unthinkable nightmare. Lake Nyos, a seemingly calm body of water, had silently released a massive cloud of carbon dioxide, suffocating more than 1,700 people ...