Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Lake Nyos incident was one of the deadliest natural disasters in Cameroon's historyAFP "The Lake Nyos disaster took everybody ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a scene out of a horror movie. There was no sound, the air was deadly still, and the putrid smell of rotting eggs wouldn't ...

Lake Nyos looks deceptively ordinary in photographs. It sits in a volcanic landscape in north-western Cameroon, surrounded by steep green slopes and farmland. Yet beneath its surface, an unusual ...

The night of August 21, 1986 began like any other in the farming villages surrounding Lake Nyos in northwest Cameroon. Families had finished their dinners, livestock had been penned, and the rhythms ...

In 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon experienced a devastating limnic eruption, releasing a massive carbon dioxide cloud that killed approximately 1,700 people and 3,500 animals. This rare phenomenon, ...

Lake Nyos in Cameroon is, at a glance, innocuous, and silent. It’s a crater lake, meaning that the water there poured in long after the incredibly explosive volcanic eruption that forged it went quiet ...

Tucked into the volcanic highlands of northwestern Cameroon, Lake Nyos looked like the last place anyone would expect a disaster. The deep crater lake was surrounded by green hills, farms, and small ...

On August 21, 1986, a man making his way to Nyos, a village near a crater lake in northwest Cameroon, found dozens of dead animals along the road. He called into a home to see if the residents knew ...

August 21, 1986, was a busy market day in the village of Lower Nyos and that evening most people went to bed early. The next morning, some 1,700 people and 3,000 domestic animals were discovered lying ...

On August 21, 1986, a silent cloud of carbon dioxide swept through villages around Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing nearly 2,000 people in their sleep. Four decades later, survivors are still living ...