Lake Nyos

It is 2,000 times larger than Lake Nyos, with more than two million people living along its shores.

Scientists Work to Prevent Cameroonian Lake from Exploding 2011

Lake Nyos sits on the flank of an extinct volcano in Cameroon's remote northwest.

Scientists Work to Prevent Cameroonian Lake from Exploding 2011

Lake Nyos lacks such endowments, but remains a cherished place despite the sad memories.

Scientists Work to Prevent Cameroonian Lake from Exploding 2011

I would say that the people who live near Lake Nyos rightly consider CO2 a toxic pollutant in the atmosphere.

"1970s lifestyle 'protects planet.'" Ann Althouse 2009

Natural Hazards: volcanic activity with periodic releases of poisonous gases from Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun volcanoes

Cameroon 2009

But it's not entirely benign, either: On Aug. 21, 1986 in Cameroon, 1,746 villagers were suffocated in their sleep when a huge cloud of naturally-occurring carbon dioxide that had been at the bottom of Lake Nyos erupted and blanketed the countryside.

A Clean Coal Confrontation 2009

The most obvious example is the Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon, August 1986, when 1700 people died from CO2 poisoning after natural release of the dissolved gas.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

One night in 1986 in the Cameroon in the area adjacent to Lake Nyos, every bug, animal, and 1700 humans mysteriously died.

Lake Overturn-Vestal McIntyre « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

In 1986, water from Lake Nyos, a crater lake in the Bamenda Highlands seeped into magma channels below and caused a massive explosion that killed 1,700 people and devastated the surrounding countryside.

Cameroonian Highlands forests 2009

It is susceptible to volcanic activity with periodic releases of poisonous gases from Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun volcanoes.

Cameroon 2009