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On the night of August 21st, 1986, Lake Nyos released a massive cloud of carbon dioxide that silently rolled across ...

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, ...

Discover the deadly reality of falling into Lake Nyos and its poisonous gases. Melissa Gilbert blasts Megyn Kelly over ...

Recounts how according to local traditions the recent disaster at Lake Nyos was a sign of the displeasure of the ancestors, rather than a natural phenomenon. Also ...

The title of Vestal McIntyre’s engrossing first novel may have the comforting overtones of a Garrison Keillor yarn, but in fact it refers to one of nature’s more deadly phenomena. Notoriously ...