Watch Out for Exploding Killer Lakes
11th March 2016
Exploding killer lakes may sound like the subject of a Stephen King novel but they’re actually out there, waiting to strike with a CO2 cloud that suffocates every living creature in its path by sucking the oxygen out of the air.
In 1986 Lake Nyos near the border of Nigeria unleashed a deadly CO2 cloud upon the people who lived in the valley below, killing over 1700 villagers and at least 3000 head of cattle.