The curious minds at What If investigate the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon, where a rare limnic eruption released a ...
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An entire village went to sleep near a lake - then 1,700 people never woke up, "The air turned deadly"
In August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a massive cloud of carbon dioxide that killed more than 1 ...
On the night of August 21, 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northern Cameroon spewed a concentrated cloud of carbon dioxide on nearby villages, killing more than 1,700 people. Subsequent ...
The residents of several villages in northern Cameroon went to sleep on August 21, 1986, unaware that many of them would never wake up. Late in the evening, around 10 p.m., a tragic series of events ...
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