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 ...

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

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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Government intensifies efforts to make resettlement areas safe for survivors. On August 21st, 1986 Cameroon counted some 1,700 dead following the outburst of lake Nyos. Nineteen years after survivors ...

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The world often seems inured to suffering in obscure places. But in 1986 a freakish act of nature deep in Cameroon put the impoverished West African nation on the front pages, and into the record ...

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 ...