Cameroon after a natural disaster at Lake Nyos. This rare event changed not only our lives but also our understanding of the world.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A serene lake in Africa turned blood orange before it tragically killed nearly 1,800 people. Lake Nyos, located in northwest Cameroon, became infamous for a tragic event in 1986, when a massive ...

ON THE NIGHT OF THE APOCALYPSE, Ephriam Che was in his mud-brick house on a cliff above Nyos, a crater lake in the volcanic highlands of northwest Cameroon. A half-moon lit the water and the hills and ...