One night in 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon released massive clouds of carbon dioxide, enveloping entire villages and killing thousands. Since then a dicey game has been played out by scientists battling ...

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 ...

Researchers involved in a unusual project to prevent natural disasters in two African lakes say the first few years of the attempt have gone well, but have not yet made things safe. The project aims ...

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, Cameroon — It began quietly, with a white mist that bubbled out of this crater lake deep in Cameroon’s mountainous interior. The mist formed into a cloud, dropped over a cliff and poured ...

It is not often that one hears about a volcanic lake in Africa, but it's closer than you think? On the deadly night of August 21, 1986, a strange and mysterious natural disaster took place at one of ...

Rare 'limnic eruptions' can unleash deadly, invisible gas clouds from deep lakes, as seen in Cameroon's 1986 Lake Nyos ...