The in-depth story of the Lake Nyos Limnic Eruption Disaster ... The chief of the Subum village’s health center in North West Cameroon has spent the previous day in a nearby town and is ...

On August 21, 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos, Cameroon, released a massive cloud of carbon dioxide, suffocating over 1,700 people and countless animals. The gas, originating from the lake's ...

Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees, award-winning marine biologist Aristide Takoukam Kamla has been ...

Probing the Mystery of Limnic Eruptions that Release Clouds of CO 2 Cameroon has many volcanos, some of them with lakes in their craters. In the 1980s, limnic eruptions occurred at two crater lakes, ...

The Republic of Cameroon is home to a chain of volcanoes called the Cameroon Volcanic Line that stretches a total of 1,600 km. Two disasters occurred in this volcanic line in the 1980s. Huge amounts ...

Ismaela Muhamadu was six years old when he lost his parents and siblings in a poisonous gas explosion at northern Cameroon’s Lake Nyos. The blast killed more than 1,800 people, and 3,000 cattle and ...

Lake Nyos in Cameroon erupted in 1986, unleashing a deadly cloud of carbon dioxide. Over 1,700 lives were tragically lost as the gas suffocated villages, leaving a trail of devastation.