The Silent Lake That Breathed Death: How Cameroon’s Lake Nyos Became Nature’s Deadliest Trap
In 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon released 1.6 million tons of carbon dioxide in a single night, creating an invisible cloud of death that killed over 1,700 people as they slept. This rare phenomenon called a limnic eruption transformed a peaceful crater lake into nature’s deadliest gas chamber.
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