These were known as the Oakville blobs, and none of them remain. There is no documentation that they existed aside from ...

On August 21, 1986, Lake Nyos, an otherwise calm lake, erupted and released a large cloud of carbon dioxide (CO2), suffocating over 1,700 people and countless animals by displacing the oxygen ...

Two disasters occurred in this volcanic line in the 1980s. Huge amounts of CO2 suddenly exploded from Lake Monoun and Lake Nyos, which are crater lakes--lakes that form over volcanic craters--and ...