After years of waiting, Cameroon is finally able to begin disarming the silent killer that lurks in one of its deadly lakes. The deep waters of Lake Monoun contain a large amount of dissolved carbon ...

CAMEROON has begun to make one of its deadly lakes safe at last. Engineers have started installing pipes to remove carbon dioxide building up in the depths of Lake Monoun, which could erupt at any ...

The Republic of Cameroon is home to a chain of volcanoes called the Cameroon Volcanic Line that stretches a total of 1,600 km. Two disasters occurred in this volcanic line in the 1980s. Huge amounts ...

Probing the Mystery of Limnic Eruptions that Release Clouds of CO 2 Cameroon has many volcanos, some of them with lakes in their craters. In the 1980s, limnic eruptions occurred at two crater lakes, ...

In 1986, Cameroon’s Lake Nyos was the scene of an extraordinary and devastating natural disaster. The lake quite literally exploded, releasing 80 million cubic meters of carbon dioxide in just 20 ...

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 ...