Limnic eruptions are among the strangest natural disasters on Earth, occurring when enormous amounts of dissolved gas suddenly escape from deep lake water. The story examines Lake Nyos and other ...
Engineers use a simple pipe to prevent a lake from releasing the invisible killer that suffocated an entire region in 1986.
Deep in the volcanic highlands of northwestern Cameroon, there is an unassuming body of water that once unleashed one of the most unusual and deadly natural disasters in modern history. Lake Nyos, a ...